More Awesome Than You!

Instead of filling up the request thread with a bunch of questions, let's ask them here and see if we can help each other out with some of the features.

The next post contains all the AwesomeMod commands I know of.  I'll try to keep it as updated as possible.  If you notice anything that is wrong or unclear please give me a heads up.  If you find any commands I don't have listed... by all means post it here and I'll try to add it to the list.



Wikki type page for awesomemod: http://wikka.moreawesomethanyou.com/Awesomemod

Use the following at your own risk.  (I dunno if that needs to be said, obviously nobody else is risking anything if you bork something)
Known console commands ctrl shift c to activate the console
showconfig - lists your current AwesomeMod config settings
showconfig RoboticHandofGod - shows the current config setting for RoboticHandofGod  (change "RoboticHandofGod" to a different setting listed from showconfig to see its current setting.  For example, showconfig lesswhiny will show you if the lesswhiny feature is enabled)
setconfig RoboticHandofGod true - enables the awesomeMod feature "RoboticHandofGod" (change "RoboticHandofGod" to a different setting listed from showconfig to activate that setting; Change "true" to "false" to deactivate a setting)  For example setconfig lesswhiny false will deactivate the lesswhiny feature.
Maxmotives - sets all motives in the household to max
editsim - brings up the CAS for the currently active sim.
editsim firstname lastname - edits the sim Firtname Lastname in CAS.
destroyallhumans - deletes all sims.  Including your current family.  Good for starting a fresh neighborhood
destroyallnpcs - deletes all npcs.
destroyalltownies - deletes all non active household humans (I'm not sure if it kills any npcs... I've never used this one.... but I am pretty sure it doesn't kill any active household members.... someone with experience with this command let me know exactly what it does)
help - lists all console commands.  This list includes EA commands as well as AwesomeMod commands
dresser - sends active sim to the CAS dresser mode for editing outfits
dresser firstname lastname - sends the sim Firstname Lastname to the CAS dresser for editing outfits
mirror - sends active sim to the CAS mirror mode for editing hair and whatnot
mirror firtname lastname - sends the sim Firstname Lastname to the CAS mirror for editing hair and whatnot
lifetimehappiness - adds 50,000 spendable lifetime happiness points to the selected sim
listchosen - lists all your households that are protected from story mode by having the ChosenTagString in their household description.  good for testing if you did it right.  (I haven't tested this yet... so feedback if my description is inaccurate would be welcome)
listhomeless - lists all homeless households in the neighborhood
money - sets the active sim's funds to $1,000,000
money 1000 - sets the active sim's funds to $1,000... change the value to whatever you like
select firsname lastname - selects the sim Firstname Lastname and changes your active household to him.  (I think this is an awesomemod command.... but I don't know 100%.  I also haven't tested this so feedback is welcome)
SetHouseholdDescription texthere - Sets the current household description to texthere.  change "texthere" to whatever you like.  Good for setting up a household to be protected by your story mode protection string or to make a household listed under your radar string.  (This might not be an awesomemod command)  No longer necessary, see bless command.
disableclothingfilter on/off - Lets you pick any item of clothing for any category in the CAS screen *Thanks tedw*
bless toggles it on the Sacred status of current fambly.  Used for storymode protection.
bless <houshold> - to bless a household.  (probably toggles it... so if you type it a second time you can probably disable it for that household)

Known mouse commands - pulls up pie menu commands
ctrl-shift-click on a sim - EA debug commands *use at your own risk* *seriously* *You would be safer lighting your computer on fire than you would be using some of those functions*
ctrl-click on active sim - Supreme Commander
Supreme Commander is kind of like Macrotastics from The Sims 2.  It will direct your sim to do things like "collect rocks" and whatnot.

Task: Power Idle
Task: Random Crap
Task: Write Book *Must already have a book in progress*
Task: Trash Rummage
Collect: Bugs
Collect: Rocks
Collect: Seeds
Collect: Everything
Skill: Cooking
Skill: Mechanical
Skill: Logic
Skill: Gardening
Skill: Writing
Skill: Charisma

ctrl-click on another family's sim- selects sim and changes to his family
Shift-click on active sim- Modify Traits of the sim
Shift-click on sim- Trigger Age Transition of sim
shift-click on non-family sim - Add to active Family
In the map screen: ctrl-Rightclick on one of the orange tags to instantly select! Control and track your entire neighborhood!
ctrl-Rightclick - Marking and Unmarking sims and households for Sacred status and Radar tracking
ctrl-click on another family's house to change active households *thanks bidou*

addtrait Pedophile Makes an adult sim receptive to advances from a 12.
addtrait Pedobait Makes a 12 receptive to advances from an adult
backtowork  Get back to work you slacker!
addtrait <trait name> adds a trait to a sim.  It is case sensitive. To add the "Natural Cook" trait you need to type in addtrait NaturalCook
droptrait <trait name> removes a trait from a sim.  It is case sensitive.
rename renames a sim.  Doesn't check for the name's length
therapture  The rapture is coming! Only your chosen will be saved.
listchosen It lists the chosen.
wandhere wands the lot ala sims2 wand.  (I think if people are stuck it fixes it... but I have no idea.. Someone please explain this one for me)

Hi!

Every night at 12.59 (in game ::)) the game starts lagging, and I mean serious lagging. It stops for about 2 min and then runs for 2 sec all through the night. In the morning about 4 o clock it starts running normal speed again ??? Awesome is the only mod I have installed. I love it and want to keep it :'( Anyone else who has these issues? What to do?

Good to know. My Pc is kinda averege so :P. Thanks for the info :)

Question, sorry if this is documented someplace, but how do I increase the limit that kleptomaniacs can steal per night?

It's weird though - this has started happening to me recently, like the past 2 days or so, but never before that.

There is a mod for that.  It allows you to steal at any time (if nobody is looking) and increases the limit to 50 items per day.

http://www.sims2workshop.com/viewtopic.php?t=3087

I'm talking to the walls.  This has been discussed (to friggin death) in the Request thread.

The changes that are causing the lag are new.  Therefore the lag is new.  You didn't experience before 2 days ago, because the Story Progression changes didn't exist before 2 days ago.

That's because previous versions of Awesomemod didn't really touch the story mode logic.  The new version makes it smarter... but uses a lot of calculations to work so that is why it is lagging now.  For me, it lags 2 or 3 times for 1 minute... then runs fine.  I'm sure it acts differently in different hoods/different computers.

The good news is J. M. Pescado is trying to find where in the code it is hanging up, and trying to make it more efficient.  So hopefully in a future build it won't lag anymore but still make story mode more logical and not completely random like the vanilla version.  

I already knew about the lag issue but I do have a question about it. I was playing the same household of orphans for a couple of sim weeks (long enough for the toddler to be 2 days from teen) and the first few nights the lag was once at 1 a.m. for a couple of minutes. But the longer I played the game, the lags started lasting longer. Right now they happen every 5 sim minutes starting at 1 a.m. until about 3:30 a.m.

I haven't played with any version released today because I have been at work. But it did seem to get exponentially worse the longer I played. Has this already been fixed? Has anyone else had this problem?

I just installed the newest build and the lag issue seems much better.  Had I not been watching 1am come and go, I might not have noticed the tiny hiccup that occurred.  That's especially remarkable considering the game itself is running really slowly for me because my computer really needs to be rebooted.  I tested two nights in a row.

I had this question posted at the request thread before you made this one.  Was going to tell someone to move it to here, but appearently it got erased or something.  Anyway, my question was for the God's chosen tag.  Do you put that into the individual sims descriptions or just the household description.  Also, do you just type what you put in in the config tool?  For example, I used noprog for the key, so you just type that in the description and that's it.  Or do you have to do something else as well.  Sorry if I sound like a moron, but I wasn't totally sure based off the description in the readme.

I had a problem- I'm posting it here because I'm not sure if it's my game/a glitch or related to the Awesomemod.

I installed the Awesomemod according to the directions I found on this site and at MTS. I'm about 98% sure I did it right. I triple checked to make sure I installed it correctly.

After starting my game (which loaded perfectly fine, no crashes/problems!) I played for about a minute and a half before my mouse disappeared! :(
I couldn't see the pointer at all, so I keyboard shortcutted a Quit and voila! My mouse was right there on my desktop.

I've just removed the Awesomemod and I'm going to restart my game to see if it was a game error or an Awesomemod error. If I restart my game and the mouse is back, I'm going to reinstall the Awesomemod again just to make sure it was/wasn't the Awesomemod.

Since the bugs thread has been closed, I'm posting this here. If I've missed the new bugs post, degrade me thoroughly.

I'm only using the awesomemod + enablescripterror packages; the one I'm using is from 15 June. I've tried multiple times to use the latest one (21 June, afternoon version) and kept all the standard configs, except that I enabled debugcommands (<i>not</i>, however, debuginteractions). Every time I try to use it, however, it loads up fine, asks me which game file I want to play - but then it reports that there's no CD in the drive. The no-CD is, naturally, enabled.

I've cleared caches, I've returned debugcommands to disabled, I even tried disabling no-CD and then re-enabling it. It continues to report that there's no CD until I finally reinstalled the awesomemod from 15 June.

Anyone else got this problem? Am I doing something painfully, obviously stupid? Or is it just an unknown oddity?

I'd just like to report a possible problem I've found. I have No Random Merges, Evictions and Additions enabled, and I noticed a household consisting of 2 adult males left their rather large house and merged with another 2 person household, making it a 4 person household. This new house they moved in to is tiny, with 1 double bed, and the sims are all strangers to each other.  ???

Is No Random Merges working fine for everyone else?

The description on the config tool says "Households containing this string in their description are immune to Story Mode. Leave blank to not use this feature."  So it would make sense to be placed in the household description.    That is where I am putting it at any rate.

You shouldn't have to do anything beyond that (beyond setting the code in the aweconfig.package of course).  I believe you could even have other text in there as long as it somewhere says "noprog" or whichever code you chose.  But I don't like to tempt fate so my descriptions only include the tagline I chose.

I doubt it's due to awesomemod, as I experienced the same more than once, with and without mod. It occurred more frequently if I keep the game minimized at some point: when I return, the cursor is gone.

That's what I thought, but wasn't for sure.  Thanks for the reply.

It's not due to the mod.  I've had this happen in other games as well.  Usually restarting the game fixes it. 

I play in windowed mode, but the mouse-loss happens to me occasionally. I just click around inside and outside the window until it comes back. I've never had to restart the game to get it back.

hey everyone Im new here and I needed some help with the mod. Do you have to have aging on under options in order to have the TS2Aging cheat to work?

thanks

I'm not 100% sure, but I believe you would.  Otherwise your the active household wouldn't age.  Also, you need to have the ts2 aging enabled via the config tool.

Ok thank you for the quick response :) So for sure no one else will age once i put aging on under options only the current household im playing? I dont like my default sims aging hehe

That is the way it supposed to work.  I don't use that feature, so take my advice with a grain of salt.  The best way to see if it is working before you start your main family, is to test drive a couple of premade families for 2 or so sim days.  I believe they age at midnight, so switch families after then.  Just make sure you remember their age before you switch over.  Rinse and repeat.

One more thing guys before I enabled Commands and Interactions with the Awesomemod i was able to slide the needs to fill them up when I want. I cant seem to do that now. Is there a way to get the slider again?

I know that I am doing something wrong.  I just started using a Mac, so I'm not used to them.  First I installed the framework.  I wasn't sure if it went in Applications > The Sims 3 or Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3.  I've tried both.  Is there a Sims 3 folder I'm missing?  I know under windows it would go in the one under Program Files, but I don't think Macs have Program Files.

Then I added the .package file to Mods and deleted the scriptcache.package from Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3.  No matter what combination described above the mod doesn't actually do anything.  My game remains as usual.  None of the Awesomod features are present.

So, if anyone has a Mac and knows what I'm doing wrong, please let me know.  Thank you!

Installing Awesomemod on a Mac:  http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,15477.0.html

There is an entire thread about it, but it is not in the Awesomemod section, so I can understand how you would miss it.  However, do try a search next time, it results in less pokings from the MATY crowd. 

I just downloaded the lastest version of the Awesomod, but I can't seem to locate one of its previous features. In the previous Awesomod version that I had I could shift click a sim that I wasn't controling and select "select sim" this way I could now control that other sim. Now when i shift-click a sim that option does not appear. What happened to it? I really liked that feature

Control click.

Thanks for that tip, but that ctrl-click did not show me what i was looking for. Let me try to explain further. What I am looking for is an option to click on a sim that is not currently in the household I am running and have the option to "select sim". Once I do this then my control switches from the household I was controling to the household of this new sim I have selected. Ctrl-Click does nothing when clicking on a sim from another household. The previous version of the awesomod allowed me to shift-click on a sim not from my own household and select them and therefore control them

In the last thread, there were a ton of separate posts with different commands for different things that weren't always listed in the rtfm.  Is there any way people might list the ones they know?  I never got around to messing with the commands in AwesomeMod since I just stuck with playing regularly while running the mod siltently, but noticed there was a lot of talk about different ones in the last thread. I had intended on going through and making up some sort of reference however, that is no longer possible.  Maybe someone could start a thread for that, or post them here since the thread does say "helpful tips".  That would be awesome as a recap all in one place.

I had that problem. It ended up being because I was still trying to use the launcher. Make a new shortcut, this one pointing directly to the C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Games\Bin\TS3.exe If you need to add new Store content in the future, you can just open the launcher, install the content, and then use the new shortcut to start the game.

*Edit for incorrect file path.

I think that is a good idea. If someone makes a list like that I'll try to edit the first post to include them.   I should probably also add the various mouse commands that I know of.

I didn't see this in the RTFM, but found it mentioned in another thread:

disableclothingfilter on/off - Lets you pick any item of clothing for any category in the CAS screen.

I never even installed the launcher, actually, but I tried deleting/redoing the shortcut and going through all it again - nope. Still asks for a CD.

Okay.... done updating the first post with all the console commands/mouse commands I know.

Thanks tedw for the disableclothingfilter command... I've added it to the list.

Hi, just registered here to post my thanks for an awesome mod, no bug reports as such (did notice the 1am glitch but not too bad on my system - self built games machine), but I do have a question/suggestion; is there any way of making all the props uni sexual? (hair, clothes, personal decs - or at least the hair, a lot of the female hair would look ok on the guys).

Actually, kind'a surprised to find myself utterly addicted to this game, played The Sims1 for a few hours, same for TS2, but this version (with a few annoyances, agree about the ingame lighting, though fixed the pudding look by changing the res format, they look better at 5:10 than 16:9), really grabbed me, 'got' it for my niece but can't stop playing it.

Anyway, cheers for unborking the game even more.

Franc Kaos.

I installed the latest version yesterday and leave  the "Wired Stereos Don't Annoy Bedrooms" enabled, now none of my Stereos have sound!
I use the German version of S3.

Greetz

Pretty sure that has been fixed for some time.

I saw in the awesomemod configuration tool that there is an option for TS2 style aging where only the active household ages, which is what i've been dieing for! Can I get a confirmation from anyone that this works?  :D

It works.  But you shouldn't need confirmation.  The fact that Pescado says it is there should be enough.  He only makes things that work.

I think my question got lost a bit but I asked

before I enabled Commands and Interactions with the Awesomemod i was able to slide the needs to fill them up when I want. I cant seem to do that now when I have both enabled . Is there a way to get the slider again?

Actually, I'm having the same thing happen. Just put in the testingcheatsenabled command.

My little sister had the same problem after I installed Awesomemod on her laptop. Turns out she was making a new shortcut to the launcher and not the .exe. Not saying you're as computer illiterate as her, but it's worth double checking.

I have a question for you Pescardo.  I see you added a feature where non-active sims can gain lifetime happiness by fulfilling wishes.  Very cool for anyone who is playing multiple families.  But do non-active sims automatically choose new wishes... or do they only fulfill the ones you have already selected for them when they were in your active family?

Just the ones you already selected. For now. More to come, though.

You might also try alt-click.  It's moved around a few times in the various versions.  It's there, though.  One of my favorite features.

I think you´re right it seems I have the missing music bug ;(

Well shift-click doesn't work for me either now, neither does crtl-click or alt-click to select a sim. I'm missing that feature.
And I have the missing music bug too, I noticed when it came back briefly during another interaction, can't remember what it was.

Ctrl-clicking just worked for me.  Thanks for asking the question, b/c I had no idea you could seamlessly switch between households in seconds.  What an incredible feature.  You can switch to NPC's, see where their family members are doing, grant them wishes, see how their career and relationship.  I switched to some random towny and saw that every family member was busy doing something, and within moments one of them got a new skill level.  It really makes the town feel more alive. 

If the sim you are clicking on is homeless then you can't select them.  Type listhomeless in the console and see if the sim you are trying to select is homeless.

That's probably it, he was a maid. mirror worked, but you have to remember the name and type it flawlessly.

As of yesterdays build, control still worked for me in selecting other sims.

Nevermind, I see now you found your problem.

ShowConfig in the newest version of AwesomeMod has an option I have never seen before, and can find no mention of it in any of the threads - "InformOnStoryAction: False"

Was wondering if anyone had any further information on what this option enables. My (hopeful) guess would be pop-ups informing you of the Story Mode type of actions occurring in the neighborhood, replacing the need to spend an hour reading the paper every day!

When story mode gives someone a job or does a change in the relationship between 2 sims or fires someone or has someone retire etc etc etc it will let you know.

It is kind of cool to see... and usually there aren't too many popups.  (They generally happen at 1 am)

Im not sure if this is possibly but can you add money to a family when your in edit town?

Yes.  Go into the console (ctrl-shift-c) and type Familyfunds Lastname 5000 to set the Lastname family's money to $5,000.  You can set it to whatever amount you like.

Is editme supposed to be gone from the latest version?  I tried it out and am getting an unknown command response.

I don't want to put this in the bug thread in case it's a feature.

It is now editsim

The name of this thread is not a lie! That is a most excellent helpful tip.

It seems obvious now, you'd think I would have hit on it when I was typing in all the variations on edit I could think of. So not awesome of me.


Thanks.

This sounds... well, awesome.
So, I hope you'll explain a couple of things to a peasant (me).
What is a hack framework (it's required--what is it? is it related to ".NET Framework 3.5", which is a requirement for Install Helper Monkey? and I don't know what that is either). I know this is probably basic. I've lurked and read every post on the Awesomemod and I can't figure some of this stuff out. XML? (I see this one a lot... it's probably obvious  :-[ )

The Install Helper Monkey also states in its description on MTS "Please note that this overwrites any existing Resource.cfg file in the Sims 3 root folder." Should I care about this?

Sorry to ask stupid questions, but I want to learn!

Don't worry about all that.  Just download the monkey installer then run that.  Everything will be all set up for you.  Then download awesomemod and double click it.  It will install it for you.  Then double click on it again and you should get an error message saying the file was already installed.  If you get that then you should be good to go.  (repeat for the aweconfig.package as well if you want to customize awesomemod) load up the sims.  Play your neighborhood.  Then open up the console (ctl-shift-c) and type in "showconfig".  If you get a popup window listing all the awesomemod features... it is running correctly in your game.

After that, if you ever want to update awesomemod with a newer version you will have to delete the old awesomemod and the old aweconfig.package

If you can't find them... then just double click on the awesome.package that you downloaded and you'll get that error message again which tells you where it was installed previously.  After you delete those files double click on the new ones to have them installed.

It is as easy as that.  And no, don't worry about the monkey installer overwriting the resource.cfg  That only really pertains to people who have manually installed mods and made their own resource.cfg

No, it's not correct, and the mod (nor any other mod) will work whatsoever.

I strongly recommend you to use this installer (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,15484.0.html), expecially if you didn't install anything else before. Shameless self-promotion, but really, explaining how to do it manually every time is a hassle.

I tried this command too and got the same "unknown command" message. What exactly did I have to wirte into the commandline and from where, household with sim selected, neighborhood?

Thx and Greetz

With a sim selected.  (not in CAS or anywhere like that)

Do any of the other commands work for you?  It is possible you don't have awesomemod installed correctly.  Try typing in "showconfig" and see if that works.  (no quotes)

Please see my post one page back directing another Mac user to the relevant guide someone posted elsewhere.  It should work.  Macs are speshul snowflakes and require some steps that PCs don't, because they hide the file structure inside of what you see as an application.  I don't play the Sims on a Mac so I can't give you the exact directions, but someone else already posted them. 

Kind advice from a lurker:  It is a very, very bad idea to post on MATY without reading the entire thread (no matter how many pages long it is) to make sure your question hasn't already been asked.  Those who are More Awesome will poke you with sporks until you run away in tears.  If you're planning on posting again, read the FAQ:  http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,7437.0.html (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,7437.0.html). 

Does anyone know how to kill the meal anytime code?

A small addtion to the list of commands - You can ctrl-click on another family's house to change active households.

When I type showconfig the list is so long it goes from the top of my screen past the bottom. The check you click to close the box isn't even visible. You can't click anything behind it and you can't close the box so it basically you are stuck. I had to Alt-Tab to minimize the game them do Ctrl-Alt-Delete to close the game.

You could have just pressed enter, but the new update changes that so it won't happen.

I've been busy with my current family who had a missing phone for a while and 5 screaming diaper-fillers.  I haven't had time to check on the randomly generated townie families.  Has the smarter AI been producing romance or kids in your town?  I saw one married family with three kids, but I think they came to town that way.  I'm sure the AwesomeMod is chugging away as it should, but I'd like to know if anyone has seen it in action -- sims gettin' it own all by themselves.

I'm sorry. I feel like such a pain... but thank you so much!
So now, all I have to do is install awesomeMod like this? :
The Sims 3 (Alias) > Mods > Packages > Awesome





I'm so sorry. I know, I'm a pain... and I surely don't want to be poked with sporks. :P
But I looked through the forum and I saw the previous user that was having problems. I read through the link that was given on your post, and it helped-- but, I got stuck because there are two awesomeMod downloads (the part going back to the framework folder).

I downloaded the Sims Alias that Marhis posted and it definitely seems less confusing. Now I just need to know what folder the awesomeMod download goes in.

Thanks for the help! I'm going to dl everything and install it.   :D

hi all! Is "lifetimehappiness" not working with your game also?

Good rule: if it ends in .package, it goes in the Packages folder.

Also, if you use a package installer, then you don't need to put your files anywhere, because the installer does this for you. That's why it's called an installer.

Thanks a lot. That will be a great help and will probably cut down on a lot of questions if there's a comprehensive list that everyone can refer to. Much appreciated what you've already accomplished here.

I agree. I too am also totally lost regarding all these new functions, so I'll just ignore them and keep simming until I feel a bit braver.

familyfunds doesnt seem to work for me when iam under the edit town section. Do i have to select the person first or do i just have to type in anyones last name at is in the bin. I did make a new person who doesnt have a house yet but it doesnt seem to work at all. Someone please tell me exactly where in edit town to place the code and write it out exactly as it should be

They have to have a house first.  Just move them into an empty lot.  Do the familyfunds lastname thing... then move them to where you really want them to live.

So move them to an empty lot.  type familyfunds newdude 50000    and they'll have $50,000 (assuming their lastname is newdude).

I found a way to shortcut this which I knew I should have written down, but I believe it was something like doing the familyfunds cheat, going through the steps of merging them into a household, but then cancelling, which updated their funds.  I'll try it again when I start up the game and see if I am remembering correctly.Can't seem to replicate this, so ignore my idiotic ramblings.

I just read on the sims 3 forum that having the awsome mod installed stops you from being invited to parties?

A) Is this true

B) Can you be rang out of the blue to attend somebody elses party?

 ??? thanks

I don't think that my friends would stop inviting me to parties just because I have the Awesomemod installed. If this is the case, then they aren't very good friends!

chaos thankyou for making me laugh   :o

My Sims were not invited to parties before Awesomemod, and they have not been invited to parties since Awesomemod, so my anecdotal experience suggests that Awesomemod has no effect on party invitations.

There is a patch out on the official site: http://www.thesims3.com/game/patches

Complete list of changes:

    * Addresses some issues with Speed 2 and 3 moving too slowly. Some machines will have better results when using Speed 2 and 3 now.
    * Fix to story progression on/off selection toggle.
    * Fix for a possible crash with audio code.
    * Fix for babysitter routing off lots with babies.
    * Addresses some issues with Vsync and refresh rate problems.
    * Addresses some issues with DVD authentication errors and drive compatibility on startup.
    * This update deals with some issues on Mac systems that can crash the game while connecting to AFP servers.
    * Fix for a freeze that can occur when Sims attempt to clean out bad food from the fridge.

Has anyone tried using the patch with Awesomemod? I was hoping that they were going to address more issues in this patch. I think I'm going to pass of this right now, as Awesomemod fixes story progression and adds awesome other features as well.

The mod will of course override the patch, just like it overrode the original game, but there could be interesting juxtapositions.

After all this time, this is all they fixed.  Pathetic.  But I guess that's EA for ya.  They seriously should compensate Pescado for fixing their fuckups.

I was discussing this with a friend the other day.  Ideally, EA would take Pescado's changes and incorporate them into the game, with a better UI.  However, is it ethical for them to do so?  Pescado is unlikely to give them his personal ID so that they can pay him for his work...

Does anyone know whether it's possible to get the patch without connecting my game machine to the internet?  My game machine hasn't had internet access since EA and Sony decided to start spying on me and destroying my hardware.  I'd prefer to download the patch and copy it over, but I can't see any way to do that.

Ethics, schmethics. It's not a concept I pay more than token attention to, so what makes you think EAxis does?

Yes. What's your region version?
EN_US (00001) (http://na.llnet.eadownloads.ea.com/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.2.7.00001_from_1.0.631.00001.exe)
Worldwide (00002)/Razor1911 (http://na.llnet.eadownloads.ea.com/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.2.7.00002_from_1.0.631.00002.exe)

Note that if you got the 632 patch, you have to reinstall now.

That was my conclusion.  They should just use your fixes.  I'm glad to hear that you agree.  EA, are you listening?

Is it safe to use AwesomeMod with this patch?

This is ALL they fixed? What about the other obvious bugs like the inability to have more than one outfit per outfit type, or the stopping of all music when apparently too many channels are being used? Or the bracelets only going on one wrist? Or "favorite color" being vestigial? Or the inability to have custom neighborhoods? Or the conspicuous absence of a diving board, piano, or hot tub? Or the lack of a cute, zany mood-related character like Tragic Clown or Social Bunny? Or the inability to style fences, stairs, or chimneys? Or the inability to change maternity clothing? Or ghosts having all of the needs and abilities of corporal sims? Or Dim Sum being a dish rather than a style of serving? Or the developers being a bunch of lazy &$!?nuggets when it comes to patching, beta testing, and game intricacies? I had complete faith that all of these would be fixed.

Or the one reported by GOSlings where toddlers stretch into this weird ET-like thing while watching TV? o_o

Just out of interest, what IS the point of favourite colour? I know it crops up in conversation, but... is that it?

I haven't had any toddlers get all weird myself, but if that is a problem, yes AND THAT TOO! The favorite color is completely vestigial. It was supposed to give sims mood benefits when they were around it, but I guess they couldn't make the limited selection of favorite colors and the hundreds of colors available in the color wheel work together.

I have no idea if this was the sole intent, but when Sims discover they have a favorite color in common, it boosts their friendship a bit. Similar to how having a trait in common will give a boost.  That's my observation, anyway.  Someone who's seen the code could tell you whether my observation is true or just wishful thinking.

If you are having extreme speed issues the patch is worth downloading. I no longer have time to make dinner while sims are at work and school. Speeds 2 - 3 are now comparable to TS2 2 - 3 speeds.

The speed issue annoys me, so I am downloading the patch and hoping that my hacks still work. It's not like the patch is dramatically changing much of anything.

For optimum speed, in case this patch does nothing for it, zoom in close to the ground. You can also move your camera out into an empty field far away from anything. I think that helps even more.

I knew I was right to avoid that patch, don't fancy another 24 hours of downloading  :P

Reversing the 632 patch should be easy enough.

This is ALL the 632 patch did:

Default.ini - added "InstallationRequired = 0"
GraphicsRules.sgr - in the very last line with the #, changed "éE?¿-žšKa‡•�÷À†d¿}³ä" to "0bfffcc9753aabac325f".
skuversion.txt - changed "1.0.631.00002" to "1.0.632.00002".

Oh yes, I've banned the tv from the toddlers cause of this.  I can't believe this is all they fixed after all this time.  Especially when there are other crazy bugs, like the turdler-tv thing, that need fixing.

Edited for clarity.

I wanted the speed fixes, so I went through the whole pain of unistalling everything and re-installing from scratch.

All went perfectly until I re-installed AwesomeMod.

Now the game goes through the intro and then gets to the loading screen and boom, crashes.

Take out AwesomeMod from the packages file, the game works perfectly again.

Obvious idiot wondering what I am doing wrong. And yes, I RTFM. Obviously I used AwesomeMod before, so I know how to install it properly.

That's a known but mysterious issue some of us have been having for a while. I noticed Pescado's cooked up this 3booter that gives the game a kick if it crashes; resuming the game automatically so we don't have to ;)

For the record, Mac version.

EN_US (00001) (http://llnet.thesims.cdn.ea.com/sims/u/f/sims3/mac/To-2706-1.2.7.00001-From-2594-1.1.45.00001.tgz)
Worldwide (00002)/Razor1911 (http://llnet.thesims.cdn.ea.com/sims/u/f/sims3/mac/To-2706-1.2.7.00002-From-2594-1.1.45.00002.tgz)

I'm having the same problem. When the loading screen comes up the cursor just twirls around and around, over and over, never getting to the Main Menu where you can choose a saved game. As soon as I remove Awesome.package from my mods folder, everything works fine.

I tried uninstalling and reverting back to 1.0.632.00002, but the problem affects that version now too.

Edit: Nevermind, I ended up getting it to work.

Did anyone else notice the announcement date of the patch? 6/15/09 (US-En), 2009-06-16 (Sweden).
It’s been in hiding for over a week!
News items are probably time stamped when uploaded so something made EA hide the news until release today.
They can’t fix a date on a news item, but we should trust their patch.

so I guess ill wait to see if we can have speed and Awesomod. Any who right now my game will not even let me patch it says unknown file found and i have teh paid for one. I took my CC folders and such out so not sure why .. oh well TO bad Awesomod could not come with it own speed fix.

Declaring you're unable to spell is NOT an excuse. If you fail at spelling you may:

1) Learn how to spell.
2) Shut the fuck up.

No other options are acceptable, here.

Can anyone confirm if thiis works?  I've tried reverting the changes but it did not work.

I guess I am a lucky one. Finally! I got the patch downloaded, and everything seems to work fine. I have the AwesomeMod, censor patch, and teen woohoo mods install, so far AwesomeMod works, the censor remover is working, I'll have to wait until I can try the teen woohoo, but I get the feeling it will probably work too....


I should also mention, the speed inprovement is freaking awesome! I'll be able to get so much more done now....

I'd like it from Pes's mouth. Is the latest patch compatiable with AwesomeMod? I own the legit version so reinstalling is not a problem for me, but I'd still like to know if I NEED to play with or without AwesomeMod (specifically the no-DVD part)

 :P

Did you need to remove any mods or change anything prior to installing the patch?

Protip: always keep the original .iso download at least for a couple months. Backing up on media is best. Also keep copies of any files you've had to replace, like original camera files if you get a camera hack, or the original shaders file for the no-censor patch.

Probably not. We'll get back to you, I'm currently running it through patchutils.

Naw, I went ahead and installed the patch, with the mods present....and, the teen woohoo mod works too.

The Censor hack will prevent the patch to install if you have bought a legit copy, but I had to uninstall and reinstall to fix this, and I patched it and ran it fine, I had the Awesome mod in and I didn't crash at all, and I think I didn't put the dll in the bin from the file, but what dose the  .dll file do anyways? I couldn't tell you if it conflict with anything, but all the options in cheat menu was there.

The real nocensor.package does not prevent the patch from uninstalling. Modifying shaders is bad, mmmkay?

anyone tried to successfully reverse 632 to 631 using the above method?

I need some clarification on


Does this apply even with story progression off, or only when it's on?

EDIT: Additional dumbness. How/where is the XML file you have to edit/tweak. Are we referring to something locally or when you download the file?

I am going to wait to get the update until I know AwesomeMod works with it. I don't find any point in updating since Pescado already fixed EA's game weeks ago.  :)
If it wasn't for Pescado fixing it, The Sims 3 wouldn't have been tolerable. This is my way of saying thank you Pescado!

You lost me. So do we need to get the patch in order to use the latest build, or is the patch included in the latest build?

You need to get and install the patch, then use the latest awesomemod, which is compatible with the patch.

Does the patch install clearly through or leave junk? Does it try to call home, or mess/move/delete up your downloads/saves? Should I backup?

It SHOULD install cleanly, but if you have a janky install from early pirated versions or early attempts at hacking the game, you may end up with a mangled directory. Works fine on Razor, though.

No, but it never hurts.

In regards to awesomod do i need to do this?

1) delete mod
2) install patch
3) install mod again

and all will then be fine, shiney and happy?

Many thanking you's  :P

Due to the fact that the mods/framework/whatnot system does not write in any file that the game uses, it is not necessary to uninstall anything to patch. However, you should upgrade your AwesomeMod to the latest version which incorporates the patch after patching.

Does the facial slider in Awesome mod still work after the patch?  I read that it broke Rick & Delphy's so I've postponed installing the patch.  I really don't want to go back to only pudding sims.

I see
Thank you  ;D

Rick and Delphy's facial slider has not yet been updated for the patch.  The awesomemod has.  Therefore, you should be fine with awesomemod, but you'll have to wait if you want to use Rick and Delphy's mod instead.

This is all a bit too much for my brain right now. I wish I could blame it on the fact that I'm currently ill, but even without my delirium, I still don't think I'd understand.

Ok... I have Razor1911. I installed the patch as directed in Pescado's link. I installed the AwesomeMod in Electronic Arts/Sims3/Mods/Packages/Hacks. Ran the game, and it's telling me that no disc is found. Well, durr, imagine that. What on earth have I done wrong? Thanks in advance.

Use the monkey installer program.

http://linna.modthesims.info/download.php?t=344611

I am using the monkey installer. :-) Still having the "no disc" error. Installed the patch, then put awesome mod in the Packages/Hacks folder. Not sure what the deal is or what I've done wrong.

Scratch all that. The problem is me..... and the Monkey installer. I have to manually drag the files (right clicking doesn't give me the menu options that it's supposed to), and from my frustration with that instead of dragging the .package of the awesome mod, I drug over the .zip of it. That I can blame on my delirium. ::)

Thanks for the help anyway, folks! :D

Are you sure you have the latest version of Awesomemod? Clear cache then redownload. Check the dates.

Oh, and my Awesomemod is loose in the Mods/Packages folder. Does what it says on the tin.

I had used the update to Razor patch a while back, and my skuversion.txt right now said my game is 1.0.631.00002
but the patch .exe setup complains I have the wrong version patch and won't install, even though I grabbed the matching one from Awesomemod main thread so it should be the right version. (00002)

Is there a known reason that might happen? Is it upset it can't have access to the launcher.exe (Because I disabled it) or does it determine version only from the skuversion.txt

Sorry to be dense... does this mean the newest version of Awesomemod includes the patch?
My game computer is not on the internet so I don't think I can dl the patch.

Also, I am getting CTDs when building... every so often I go to buy some item and bang, I'm staring at my wallpaper. I'm semi-clueless about this sort of thing... would the patch fix this?

It seems to only check skuversion.txt, so a quick one-character change will fix that particular error. I had four, but beat it into submission.

Traviswroteit: AwesomeMod is configurable. If you want random single sims having random babies that aren't related to them, then you can do so. Just enable the parthenogenesis option when configuring AwesomeMod. I don't remember if this function is enabled or disabled by default, but, either way, it's easy enough to change.

phnxflyng: No, the AwesomeMod does not contain the latest patch. You still need it. I would recommend getting a nice wireless card for your computer, and downloading the patch. There might be a non-launcher version of the patch someplace, but I didn't need it, so I didn't pay attention. There are at least two patch-related threads right here on MATY. Perhaps you should try visiting those threads.

If you're talking about the RLD to RZR update then you will need to do some registry editting to get it to work properly.  Locate the SKU file in your registry by either searching (CTRL+F) "SKU" or manually locating the Sims 3 folder.  In Vista64bit edition, it's found in this directory:  HLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Sims\The Sims 3

If you use CTRL+F make sure it's the Sims 3 folder and not some other folder  Look at the directory to verify.

Next right-click on SKU and change the value from 7 to 2.  That should fix it.  Enjoy!

Let me know if you can get the patch installed this way and have no problems with the installation process of the patch.  I'm curious to know if you experience the same problem I did from this thread:

While updating the game with the new patch I ran into an error. The overall percentage of the process of the update gets caught at 81% which is the Game\Bin\Sims3Launcher.exe. I have no idea why the patch is giving me an error when it reaches this file, telling me "Invalid File Found". Is there any specific reason for this?

Yeah, I just now tried it on mine.  All I had to do was change 632 to 631 in skuversion.txt and the patch appeared to install without any problems.

Yes. The NoParthenogenesis Enabled will allow children to be born with two parents.

Um, are these the patches? Is it okay for a peasant to dl these and run them, or am I going to cause my computer to melt down?

Edit:
I just read through the patch thread that chaos recommended I read, and my eyes have melted from my head. Argh. I want to understand all this. I used to build mods for the first Neverwinter so I swear I'm not totally stupid but man this is above my head. How do I learn this???

In case anyone doesn't know, I've discovered that if you "dresser" a baby, you can design its maggot suit.

Reporting in to say that I had the same issue as Malapietra. I had Reloaded version and used RZR patch to update it. I checked the appropriate registery entry to confirm I had a 7, which I did and then changed to 2. I then tried the patch, which choked on the helpfiles. I copied over the HelpFiles provided by Bass Junkie and then tried the patch install again, which resulted in a successful patching.

[ETA] And it runs just fine, possibly even a bit better than before (which updated Awesomemod, of course.)

The awesomemod is great but for some reason the editsim command doesn't work  ???
All the other commands like showconfig and lifetimehappiness all work but not editsim, is it because i updated to the new version?

Thanks  ;D

Pescado, does the patch that you provided for the US version work with the retail version of the game?  I am starting to become very frustrated with EA and their lack of help in being able to actually patch my game.  The idiots are not using a large enough datatype to be able to handle terabyte drives, and are now giving me bullcrap answers.

Exactly how scary and dangerous *is* the supreme commander feature?  I want to try it but I must not bork the game due to marital consequences.  I am already in trouble because I *accidentally* installed a replacement nude top and now many of wifey's sims are showing unnecessary boobage.

Edit fyi Razor version updated with awesome patch patch and worked perfectly, without unpleasant borking or spousal abuse.

I am loving awesomemod for making Sims 3 playable, and am trying to convince everyone else I know with the game to get it too. However a few strange things have happened in my game and I don't know if they're due to the mod or the game itself. I have the new patch installed.

Firstly, my restored ghost and her ghost child have lost their gravestones from their inventories. This happened while I was changing active household, but the rest of thir inventories remained (as they should under the mod). So now I fear my ghosts are doomed to wander Riverview forever or be deleted completely.

Secondly, I have story progression off completely but sims are still being shifted to the top of their career ladders in a matter of days without my help. Is this due to the job performance feature of the mod? Also familes are having children (thankfully not asexually) while story progression is off, can't figure that one out.

Thirdly, some of my sims' lifetime wishes have been randomly fufilled while I wasn't playing them, even if they don't have the requirements to fufill it. For example, one sim's wish was to have a house net worth of 100k, and it was fufilled when the net worth was only 30k.

Fourthly, I know people have reported the aging of non active sims to be sped up weirdly, I've noticed that too. Children have grown from toddler to teen in like 1 sim week and I have aging set to long :S

Thanks for reading awesome people!

I have the retail version, and the patch Pescado posted worked perfectly for me. :)

I am having the same problems as others trying to install the patch. I'm getting the region error.

The problem is twofold for me - firstly, I did not install any RLD > RZR patch, I installed the Razor version directly.
Secondly, there is no registry entry for SKU anywhere. I am running on Vista x64. There is no 'Sims' directory, other than in HKCU/Software/Electronic Arts, and even then there is no mention of SKU.

Please help!

Edit: I should add that the launcher states my version is 1.0.631.0002

Seriously, it's not that hard. Ya'll are making it more difficult for yourselves. My patch hiccuped four times and I figured it out. How? By paying attention to what file it was on when it barfed. Biohazard, you want the file C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\skuversion.txt. Change the 2 to a 1. Save. Don't touch your registry. Don't trust the Launcher; it's a dumbass and never recognized .632.

The "problems" you mentioned are not really related to the problem you are experiencing with the regional error.
 A bit obvious but are you downloading the appropriate version?  Are you downloading from the direct links?

http://na.llnet.eadownloads.ea.com/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.2.7.00002_from_1.0.631.00002.exe

Nope, didn't work Pes. Tried changing it to 00001, and tried both version of the patch. I'm going to try and reinstall and see if that works.

I managed to get the patch beyond the skuversion.txt, but now the patch stops at TSLHost.dll. I stopped the launcher from phoning home, could that be the reason?  ::)

Edit: nope, that wasn't it. I let it phone home and it patch still can't get past TSLHost.dll.
Edit2: Okay I managed to patch the game - I replaced the TSLHost.dll with the one on the Razor disc, and that did it.

A quick question--I was under the impression that God's Chosen People (tagged sacred) were not subject to aging unless being played, just like they aren't subject to regular Storymode nonsense.  Is this true or false?

This is answered in the Awesome Mod thread:

1.  God's Chosen People
     Control-Clicking a sim/house will offer the option to "Make Sacred" or
     "Remove Sacred", giving that household or sim immunity to StoryProgression
     and other assorted random toadings. The Chosen receive a gold halo on
     their house and on their tracking tags when tracked on radar. You may
     switch instantly between the Chosen household with CRTL-RClick if
     the "Supreme Commander" playmode is enabled.

Read More!

I have read every page in this thread and I have noted that while a lot of people are having problems with the patch, unfortunately no one seems to have the same problem I do. I hope there is a simple fix and that someone will be around to clue me in!

I have an, ahem, less than legally acquired international version game which decided to start crashing at random after I tried to install EA's new patch. Since the install aborted due to the launcher being removed from my computer, I figured oh well -- and habitually updated AwesomeMod now I was at it anyway. Only then did I, in my extreme morning alertness, notice that the latest AM requires the patch.

Is there any way I can undo the mess I've made without reinstalling the entire game? I have random crashes right and left every 4-5 minutes, rendering the game pretty much unplayable. In a worst case scenario, can I reinstall on top of my existing game and at least rescue my neighborhood?

Thanks in advance and apologies for being less than Windows literate.

Just thought I'd let you know that a reinstall sorted my problem and I successfully installed the patch.

You're a little tardy to the party.  I did, infact, read, and researched on the boards.  I wasn't aware of what he meant by "toadings", and I did do more than a few "advanced" searches on the board to see if it had been addressed in another thread...  

You know where to stick that sharp stick..have a lovely day, though :)

  

I'm using Windows XP so I do not know which registry file to edit from your instruction it is different.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Electronic Arts
Contains one key that says (value not set)

\Sims 3
has nothing

\Launcher\Settings
has six items in it,
CCDisabled
DateTimeOffline
FirstRun
PageIndex
UpdateMode

Could the last one be it? Data says 0x000...1 (1) Someone can tell me who knows this if that is safe to change or not?
Changing only the skuversion.txt did not help it to start. I am talking about the RLD TO RZR update, which seems like it was a bad idea now.
Also in case anyone inquires, file permissions are correct - so I really don't know why it complains about the version number :/

Gotta love how everyone's so nice here. :D Just had to post and say hello.  I'm seriously considering getting this mod because I can't depend on EA fixing this problem.  I've read this thread and the one where it says all the features of this mod.  My question is this:  If I install it and find I don't like it, is it easy to uninstall and will there be any lasting impressions on the game when it's restored or would it require a complete reinstall of Sims 3?

I think you can install and uninstall without any problems unless you are using the Supreme Commander feature of the mod. And yes, we are lovely here aren't we. Very helpful to unstupid people.

If you don't enable Supreme Commander, you can just remove the hack and all will be fine.  However, according to the posts in the AwesomeMod thread, enabling Supreme Commander pretty much means you have to keep AwesomeMod in, or risk completely borking your game.  

What Emma said.

Uh, I just said that.

Thanks for the quick and helpful reply. :)  I'm still considering.  Gonna talk to the other player of this game to see what she thinks of it before I make my decision.. but from everything I've been reading, I think this will be just the thing I was looking for.

Mmkay, I followed the directions in the readme and installed the mod as it told me to.  When it tried to load, it got about 1/8 of the way loaded and crashed.  I know this was mentioned somewhere in this forum, but either I'm glancing over it or what, I can't find where it was discussed.  In the xcpt file that was created, it says this:

[Exception info]
date: 2009-06-27
time: 18.48.40
type: ACCESS_VIOLATION writing address 0x00000008
address: 0x004df11b "E:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3.exe":0x0001:0x000de11b

Followed by stack data and then this:

[Instruction data]
004df09b => DasmX86Dll.dll not found.

Okay, so I guess I'm missing that dll file?  Forgive me if I sound noobish to you guys.. I've never had a need to mod any Sims game until this one.

Hello do you really need Patch 1.2.7 for this?

Is this what you're seeing?
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,15185.msg444342.html#msg444342


Pescado is not going to keep versions of AwesomeMod for each patch level.  So, if you want to use AwesomeMod, you should install the patch.

Quote from http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,15185.0.html
"COMPATIBILITY:
Base Game Version 1.2.7"

If you disable Supreme Commander, can you then uninstall AwesomeMod? I'm not planning on doing so anytime soon, but it would be good to know.

From Pescado's warning, it would appear not.  I suspect, from a very uneducated point of view, that Supreme Commander alters game files in some way that would cause VBTs if AwesomeMod were no longer present.


(bolding mine)

I think as long as you don't use Supreme Commander AND SAVE you can uninstall just fine. I used Supreme Commander in one neighborhood, I quit and saved,  I started having problems with CTD, I took awesomemod out and real life called ..... anyway I started the game (loaded hood previously saved with Supreme Commander enabled)....... let's just say it wasn't pretty. Once you use the supreme commander, and save, it isn't a good idea to take it out, it's a VBT.

It is fixed as I didn't save after the bad load and things seem to be working fine, but as the RTFM states there is no going back.

I would make a back up of your saves folder just in case if you are unsure whether or not you want to keep it installed.

Hopefully I'm not breaking any rules by this, but I think during all the Patch and Compatibility hubbub my question was overlooked.  :'(

Yes, that's the error.. and I did just now install the 3booter.exe file and it hasn't helped.  I fail.... epically.  :-\

I didn't install the enablescripterror.package file... just did and now it seems to be working.  I'll keep you guys informed. :)

Don't worry about tweaking xml files.  That is modding stuff and you don't need to do it unless you make a mod.

I imagine the job promotions work even without story mode on... Since story mode is basically random events and the job promotion is tied to things that are actually happening in your game.  I always keep story mode on... So I'm not 100% sure though.  To test it turn story mode off and also turn "require valid bosses" off (so he doesn't get promoted when someone else does....  Then make a sim and send him to the gym to gain 3 athletic skill points.  Get him a job in the military career.  Then switch to another family and wait for your first sim to have worked for 5 days.  Go back and check on him and see if he has been promoted and see if his job performance has improved.  Report your results.

I'd do it myself but hey, you want to know and I use story mode anyway.

That bug is fixed. Mark the sim "Sacred" and he won't be frobbed by the job engine, either.

If the relevant option for this to occur is enabled in AwesomeMod, then it will happen. Out of the box, it turns out NPCs are locked and cannot advance.

Sounds good. Also, the only reason I wanted to edit the XML was to change the default settings for some of the mod stuff, whether it's enabled or not. Is there some other settings file I can easily toggle or should I just download a customized version off the customization site?

I'm currently playing just about everyone in my entire town, and that's why it's such a big issue for me as the entire town is essentially sacred. I'll probably just download a custom version of the mod though, as it seems to be the easiest way to solve my issues. :)

Thanks for getting back to me though.

Not sure which XML you're trying to edit, but any changes you'd want to make can be done using the Awesome config which will generate the modified XML for you. If you WANT to generate it by hand, you can, but we don't support this.

Would anybody be able to direct me to the RLD to RZR patch/update? My Sims 3 version is currently 1.0.615.00107 according to skuversion.txt, and I've scoured google for the patch to 1.0.631 but have come up empty handed. Torrenting the razor1911 version of Sims 3 is a last resort, because who wants to wait a few hours (again) to play? I mean, I could always play the RELOADED version, but when I realized awesomemod wouldn't work unless I updated the Sims 3 (and I can't even get to 1.2.7 because I don't have 1.0.631) a little part inside of me died. Your help would be greatly appreciated!

Maybe I am misunderstanding what you mean, and if so, just ignore this, but Sims can have up to 3 outfits per type of clothing. Send them to the dresser and click on Plan Outfit, which takes them to CAS. Click on the desired clothing type. To the immediate right (to the left of the clothing pics) you will see a small icon representing the clothing type, and directly under that is a + (plus) sign. Click on the plus to select the second clothing outfit of the type, etc.

I also had a pregnant sim who owned the sundress as an everyday outfiit. She wore this outfit for her entire pregnancy rather than reverting to standard maternity wear. So at least they can have at least one other option for maternity clothing.

All that aside, I agree with you than there is a lot more wrong here than what the official patch addresses. I sincerely doubt I would still be playing it at all without AwesomeMod.

I'm having a problem that I'm not sure is a bug with Awesomemod or a feature.  I have debug commands disabled using the comfiguration tool, and yet when I'm in the game, I still have the debug commands available.  I can shift click on a Sim and get all the options, I can drag up and down their mood bars etc.  I know I didn't enable debug in the configuration, since I don't want this stuff, it makes it too easy to cheat if it's just...there.  Does anyone know why this stuff would still be enabled and how to shut it off permanently?  I can do it manually with the cheat console code, but I have to do it every time I load the game and it's a pain.

I tried redoing the config tool and replacing the file, just in case I accidentally enabled it and forgot, but no, it's still happening.  Am I the only one, which would indicate I borked myself, or is this happening to anyone else?

Help, please?

Hi, I'm new here.  I'll try not to be stupid.  I have the same version as the person who is quoted above.  Is there a problem with answering questions about.... ahem less than legal versions as I noticed that someone else a page back either got lost or was ignored for his question.

Mr Pescado, I have your awesomemod and it is that, but I really do want to speed my computer and so would love some advice on downloading the patch. 

I also have the debug commands disabled and can drag the motive bars. I actually like this feature (IMO, it's only cheating if you want to play the game EAxis made!), although I did accidently kill my sim once when his hunger was really low and I dragged his bar the wrong way. LOL! (I just quit without saving and was more careful the second time around!) When I shift-click I only have two options, though. I thought there were more with the debug commands enabled. But no, it's not just your game that this is affecting.

I seem to have another problem, though, that I don't think anyone has mentioned. I updated with the patch yesterday (I have the retail version, so sorry I can't comment on other versions) and reinstalled the latest version of AwesomeMod. My previous version of Awesome used the string to protect chosen families from the misnamed Story Progression. When I control-click on a house or Sim, which is supposed to add the protection in the current version, nothing happens; no option to protect the sim or household appears. So I have been unable to use this most awesome feature. Anyone else experience this? Am I doing it wrong?

I am going to try redownloading and reistalling AwesomeMod and the config tool, although I noticed that the Chosen People feature is no longer even mentioned in the config tool....Any comments or suggestions would be welcome.

You could have found your answer in the main download thread.  To save you some time, there's two ways to do it now. 

We don't care how you got your version, but such matters are off-topic in this thread and will be ignored and punished with nuking if it continues.

Any ideas why the command editsim isn't working for me?
It doesn't appear when help is typed either.
All the other commands work like showconfig; so awesomemod is working  ???

Thanks  ;D

I'd love to try this mod, but it seems I can't download it from the necessary page.  I can, however, download the framework, so it has nothing to do with my browser or connection.   Is the awesome mod down for right now, being updated or such?

So I've managed to update my Sims 3 to v1.0.631, but now I'm having the same problem as nanacake -- at first I tried to simply patch it, but it says I had the wrong regional version or something and it won't patch to 1.2.7 at all. Then I tried locating SKU in the registry, and like nanacake cannot find it (I'm on Vista32bit as opposed to 64, but my directories are the same as nana). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: Nevermind, I found it. After restarting my computer, I was able to find SKU in the register under the directory HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sims\The Sims 3, if that helps you at all nanacake. It may be different for you because you're under XP while I'm under Vista 32bit. Now to see if that patch doesn't crap out on me...

EDIT 2: The patch didn't crap out on me and the game runs fine, it's just that now Awesomemod doesn't work. I removed it and installed it again, but to no avail. I tried shift-clicking my sims in game and no pie menu option for changing traits or age transitioning appear. I'll try again, the third time's a charm...

EDIT 3: Awesomemod still fails to work in my game -- it's as if it isn't there at all. On a side note, when I first reinstalled TS3 I had to manually create the Mods\Packages folder. Does hold any significance?

This.

I would like to know how to shut it off for good as well.

That is not the debug interactions. The debug interactions involve shift ctrl click, those are the testing cheats. You do have the debug interactions off, and what does it matter if you have the testing cheats on? Just don't use them if you're that concerned..

Alright, then, to clarify, what exactly are debug interactions?  What enables them and what do they do?  If it's not testingcheatsenabled true (which is the way I always understood it, that debug mode was another term for testingcheats enabled), what is it?  And it matters because it's not how I prefer to play my game.  Just like a lot of the options in Awesomemod, it's a personal preference and there's nothing wrong with that.

The debugging commands can't do anything unless you specifically enter those commands into the console, yourself. The things you're complaining about are testing cheats, which are enabled by default in AwesomeMod. Disable them, and you'll no longer have the features that you don't want.

 :-\ Howdy... I have downloaded the razor patch. I closed out the  ea down loader when first trying to install the patch because I got an error message that said the game was running, now I get this error message
This set up has detected that  the installed game region for this update is incorrect. This update requires a different game region in order to be installed.


 Any help would be appreciated.

 Thanks  :P
 
Drac

I have a request for your download post, if you could make you're new build's feature in bold to know what you add it would help thx you for this awsome Mod :)

Zlot, if you go to the actual AwesomeMod thread, which is labeled as such, you will find the download link near the top of the first page. To find out when the latest update was posted, look at the timestamp at the bottom of the page. Also, Pescado sometimes makes a new post to let people know that there is a new build to be downloaded.

Edit to insert a missing "e".

I understand I can shut off testingcheats manually, as I said above, but it has to be done every time the game is loaded.  I was looking for a way to permanently shut them off, like the other features can be in the configuration tool.  If there is none, that's fine, I'll deal.  I just wasn't even aware Awesomemod turned them on, since as far as I can see there's no mention of it doing so in the list of things it does.  Hence my confusion with the use of the term 'debug' in the configuration tool, since it was my understanding that testingcheats mode *was* debug mode.  

Nope the sku is no where to be found, even after a restart, it's still the same as the directories/files I posted. Not sure if I will continue bothering with it, this game does not matter that much to me right now to be damaging my registry.

Will more recent awesome mod updates work with an unpatched game?

<reason for question> I am unable to patch my game. I had the first arred version and upgraded it to the 2nd. I have reverted all core files back to their original state. My game states a version (down to the 0002) compatible with the patch I have but the game refuses to update citing incompatible regions. <end reason>

First, Pescado, thank you so much for this excellent mod.

I'm trying my best to get some unique characters, so I'm using the facial CAs slider you rpvided along with the body slider CAS tool from MTS.  What I"m wondering, since I'm using both is what value do you suggest (2,3,4,5) to make things work better between the two?  Does using the value of 5 allow the face to fatten up better in relation to the belly vs. using 2?  I'd like to use a lower value so the adjustments aren't so drastic and we can make finer tuning.  Also, in the next version of the Awesome mod will you incorporate the body slider hack once again giving us values (2,3,4,5) like you did for the faces?  Or am I mis-interpretting how they work?

Thanks for all your help and the work you do!

Question about the nudity blur aspect that was recently added: Can I keep rick's no mosaic hack if I keep awesomemod's noblur disabled? If not, can you make it so the blur is completely gone rather than just when they take a shower? I know that nothing happens when sims are pissing, but I still find the blur to be overly annoying and I'd personally rather look at a sim sitting on the toilet with his pants still on than a huge blur covering it. Or at least make it optional in the config to decide what to blur and what not to blur?

Now that I've managed to fix my problems, it seems that another one has bubbled to the surface. Awesomemod causes my game not to load at all -- I mean, it starts up and everything, but when I get to the loading screen it doesn't load. At all. I don't see any green showing progress in the loading bar, just my cursor spinning around around, much how like the quoted poster was describing his problem. The game doesn't crash, either; it just sits there until I have to manually shut it down via task manager. I've searched around the Awesomemod! forums but have found nothing pertaining to my issue. Does anybody have an idea what could be going wrong?

The poster I quoted seemed to have fixed his problem, but didn't post the solution, so I was thinking about PMing him but I don't know often he logs onto MATY, and seeing as he only has six posts, I don't expect a reply any time soon.

I kept telling myself, 'I don't need it, the game is running ok-ish'.  But have decided to give it a go as I've always used J.M.'s mods in Sims 2.  However, now that I finally decide to do so, I also get the main screen, no green loading, with spinning cursor.  I've tried it with all mods emptied, and with nointro installed and get the same result.

Undocumented, possibly unsupported feature.

Rick's version works at a higher level than AwesomeMod's, and the two are unrelated: Rick's version causes the blur to render as nothingness. AwesomeMod prevents the blur from rendering at all. So if you are using them both, the game will not try to render the nothingness when sims are naked, and will render the nothingness when they are on the terlet, but you cannot see it because the item being rendered is nothingness.

The download link for the AwesomeMod seems to be non-functional.  Firefox gives me a "Page Load Error: The server at beta.moreawesomethanyou.com is taking too long to respond."  IE tells me "Oops! This link appears to be broken." and suggests I search Google for "beta more awesome than you ts3 base."  I have downloaded the AwesomeMod twice previously, but the version I currently have is pre-patch.

This is where the link is pointing: http://beta.moreawesomethanyou.com:8080/ts3/base/awesome.zip

CRTL-Rtclick did not work for me (or CTRL-leftclick, or alt-rt/left click, and any number of other combinations I tried), but I forgot about entering "bless <household> in the console. Thanks, I'll try that.

That happened to me the first time I installed awesomemod.  I also created my own install directories and created my own resource.cfg... I ended up reinstalling my game and using monkey installer to install the mods.  I am not certain... But I think I put the mods directory in the wrong place originally and that caused my problem. (but for some reason the other mods I had isntalled worked... I imagine the reason awesomemod didn't was because it actually changes the script files and is a higher level mod making it a bit more touchy.... either that or it is complete voodoo)

What I'd suggest you do is run the monkey installer program which should be found in this thread among other places... Then try.  You might have to delete your current mods folder if it is in fact misplaced.  It is just too easy to do it wrong to make it worthwhile adding the folders/resource configs manually... especially when there are aps out there that do it for you.

Thanks a lot for your reply, but I JUST figured out what I did wrong. It was terribly idiotic of me to forget something like this, but unfortunately I did. You see, after reinstalling TS3 I forgot to download and apply Delphy's hack framework again along with Awesomemod, which is obviously essential for its use. I thought it was strange that I didn't already have a Mods\Packages folder when I reinstalled TS3, and figured I must have created them manually when I really got them from the framework.zip provided on MATY and linked to in the main Awesomemod thread. Man, I feel like such a dickhead for not remembering/reading the main thread over again -- I thought I had everything that Awesomemod needed to function. Apparently not.

Thanks for being the only one to reply to my inquiries, but I guess being ignored is better than being chastised for being a dummy (although being chastised for being a dummy would have made this problem much less tedious, frustrating, and time consuming).

Well much to my surprise... I had the multiple rotting food plates when visiting Central Park today... and have kept up w/all the updates to the Awesome Mod... and patch from here too... Never had them before playing today... and I've played over 100+ hours so far... very strange!  So, will now go and install today's updated AM and hope for the best...  :o    :-\

<groan> I can't patch to 1.2.7 either. I cannot find that sku file anywhere, so the patch keeps choking out on invalid file and dying. Any tips? Since I do have awesomemod in, I crash every 10 minutes or so, rendering the game pretty unplayable.

Okay, point taken.  I was obviously wrong to think a little background information would be helpful in getting the patch to work in my game.  Now, on topic, what do I have to do to get this patch working in my game?  Help would be appreciated.   

I had the same issue. Had the Reloaded version installed and updated it by installing the Razor1911 over top of it. I had to uninstall the game and reinstall the game from the Razor1911 files before the patch would work.

I reinstalled the Razor1911 files last night, but I'm still getting gripes about it not working. The game loads, and awesomemod loads too, but it crashes randomly and every ten minutes minimum. I don't mean at startup, but during the game. For further information, I have awesomemod set to vanilla, and no other hacks in (except framework). The message I get when I try to patch is that the infamous sku key is missing (and it is indeed not in the registry).

I fucked up my Sunset Valley by using debug mode to kill some fucked up "townie" toddlers. I want to keep my legacy family (if possible), so which of the following would be the least harmful? Moving the family and the house to the library and placing them in Riverview, or should I place them in a new Sunset Valley and destroyalltownies? I don't want Sim A meeting her grandfather as a kid, and so on.

Mine refuses to update citing a "gorilla" error which I googled and is supposed to be caused by a shader hack.  Well, I got frustrated, uninstalled everything, reinstalled and without adding in anything else, tried to update.  Same error, even though I installed (this time) to my C drive instead of the second drive I had used earlier and had absolutely nothing but the vanilla game at that time.  Mine is the first arr'd version (00007).  I just gave up and am playing unpatched.

I was using the place an opportunities call I think it worked twice and it hasn't worked
since is there a limit to it or what?

I prefer to keep Story Progression on, but I'm really getting annoyed with homeless families. Even with Awesomemod, I have 8 homeless families (not including the "NPC" family) that are basically untouchable. I don't like sims existing in the ether - I want them where I can see them and move them around as I desire.


I've tried playing with the commands above, but it seems no matter what syntax I use, or where it's used (either Edit Town, or with a family lot loaded), I get "Fail!" messages. Has anyone been able to get them to work?

Yes - for example, runstoryaction MoveInHousehold. When that didn't work, I tried adding in family names, lot names, using single quotes, double quotes, <>, etc. When I tried runstoryaction Create and Move In, it did not work - the error message said it could not be validated.

I have almost everything enabled in my Awesomemod config. The only things not enabled are robotic hand of God, censors, TS2 aging, 12 woohoo, and the CAS slider scale. Any ideas? I can load the game later and take some screenshots, if that would be helpful.

Based on Pescado's actual post, it's possible that only "Create Household" works - that one works fine for me, while none of the others do.  Alternatively, it could be that the action generates a random potential event, and the "Failed!" means the action actually just failed - for instance, GetJob may have grabbed a Sim that already had a job, thus the action would fail.  I tried testing this by running GetJob over and over, but it failed every time, so this is sheer speculation.  My hunch is that only Create Household works.

Hey what does 12-Woohoo mean?

a "12" is a teen.  So it enables other mods to enable teens to fuck like bunnies.

I am definitely not awsome, but I think the point might be that you are not on topic. You are posting your questions in the wrong thread.

On the main page, look under THE HORROR, THE HORROR. There is a thread under that heading named something like 'Technical difficulties with THE HORROR'. You might want to check there to see if someone has already answered your question(s). If not, it seems to me that posting your questions in that thread might increase the chances of you getting some help with your install problems. This thread is not for install problems. This kind of thing matters here, 'k?  ;)

Okay, then - thanks for trying it out. It's good to hear that it's not just me - the quote in my signature says it all. :) Not to get off-topic, but is there any way to deal with homeless sim families, besides befriending, asking to move in, and kicking out?

One of the new features is a command, wandhere, that does what a Sims 2 magic wand did.  Having never played Sims 2, I have no idea what that implies.  Does anybody know?

What do you want to do to them? If housing exists, they will find housing and move in eventually. If you want to force them to homelessness or homefulness, that is an undocumented feature of the next version.

They aren't doing it quickly. I've had homeless sim families existing for more than two weeks with no movement. Part of the problem, I think, is that often the family only has $20k and the many homes I have open are all above $70k.

Yeah, I started a new game and instead of using Destroyallhumans, I manually moved every single family out of their houses and destroyed them individually.

A few days into the game, that Bakshi family that always seems to spawn moved into a little itty bitty tiny house worth 14k or so, when they would usually move into a nice big house that can actually fit all their fat asses into it. In any event, not using DestroyallHumans seemed to help the lag issue, as I didn't even notice 0:59 passing for quite a few days. I guess the next step would be to make a bunch of little houses that these vagrants can afford to move into and then manually place them into a house in which they fit later on. Not a big problem, just a slight annoyance, so long as I can continue to avoid the horrilag from before.

Hey all!  Apologies for my noobieness, but I am seriously baffled.

About a week ago, I downloaded the MoreAwesomeThanYou mod for Sims 3, on my laptop.  Worked just fine (well...it crashed, until I followed the directions on this site about what to add and delete and such, THEN it worked just fine.)

I've since bought a much faster, etc desktop, which does not have internet access on it just yet.  I saw there was an updated version of the mod, and I got very excited to try it out.  So I downloaded the mod onto a jumpdrive on my laptop, then transferred the jumpdrive to my desktop.  I followed the directions of where to put it of course, but it doesn't seem to be working.  The game works just fine, plays perfectly normal, but none of the MoreAwesomeThanYou stuff works.  Even something basic...like how Q should no longer quit the game...isn't working.

I've looked on here for the answer of course, but haven't been able to find it yet.  Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong, or at least point me in the right direction?

Thanks so much!

Did you install the framework?

Yep!

Then they're stuck homeless until they make enough money to afford housing, duh. :P

More info:  I have the patch.  I think the problem MIGHT be that I'm supposed to be able to open the awesome and awesomeconfig files?  When I try to open them on my desktop, I get an "access to the path...is denied" message.  When i try to open them on my laptop, I get the "Windows doesn't know which program to use" error message.

THanks again for any help you can provide!

Jesus Christ.

Use monkey installer and have it installed that way.  It is linked in this thread.

As mentioned above, I've already got the monkey installer.  I also tried changing the rights, to no avail.

Disabling my UAC got rid of the error I was getting...but the mod still isn't working.

Sorry to keep bugging, but any other thoughts, other than reinstalling the game (which I'll save as a last resort).

True, but I have affordable housing available - not enough for all of them to immediately move in, but there are at least half a dozen houses under the 20K level. And no one's moving into them, even after 2-3 weeks. Hopefully I can figure out the undocumented shiny - thanks for the heads up there.

Then the houses must be too small for them. If there is not enough space in the houses, they cannot move into them. If the events are simply not triggering, you can try forcing the issue by typing "runstoryaction Move In Household", and seeing if anyone bites.

Awesome - already have 3 of the smaller families moved in, so now I just need some affordable housing for the larger families. Thanks!

I did play Sims 2 and I don't know what this is either.

It was awesomeware, arguably one of Pescado's most amazing inventions. It was an object that, when you dragged it from the buy catalog, would instantly depreciate all of the objects on the lot. It's essentially the same effect as moving a family in, as the act of simply buying an object causes it to become devalued, except that you don't have to bother with any of that crap.

That's going to be pretty damned hard, considering that none of them are employed.  :P

I didn't see an answer to this and am curious, as I have the same issue.  I absolutely despise Riverview so playing there isn't really an option for me.  I want to save my family to the library, then delete the neighborhood and start fresh...my problem is the mother of my family is a grown up Bebe Hart (with a name change) so I am wondering if I should just evict the Hart family to the clipboard then delete them there? Or should I just debug kill the parents and evict/delete Bebe?  Also, will placing this family in a fresh new hood potentially screw up my hood as they have friendships/relationships with people who won't exist in the new neighborhood yet?  I'm also assuming I should probably remove the "Sacred" tag from them before I save them to the library...is this correct or am I being paranoid with that? 

This house (http://"http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=350426") at ModTheSims is a 3 bedroom starter furnished for under 20k. Nice layout too. I've played it some. In general those sorts of homes are hard to come by unless you just build your own.

Personally though, I think those damned Sims should just all cram themselves in somewhere immigrant style and deal. It's not ideal but sometimes you do what you gotta do. I've definitely started big familes of sims off in tiny homes to begin with. What's the alternative, sleep in a car? Haha speaking of which there should be an option for that.  ;)

Fixed link.

EnablePedophilia - makes TeenWoohoo mods redundant, or is it just another enabler like Enable12Woohoo?

Was curious as to what language the .script files are, they appear to be compiled to an assembly in the packages.


And may I suggest a future idea with enablepedophilia is to have randomly if you engage in it for a Chris Hansen sim to show up at your house and then you get busted by cops or something.

Nice to see the Teen woohoo option enabled properly....well done Pes.  I can now re-install AM and check it out.

GeorgiaPeanuts....I think its C but could be wrong.  Found them fairly easy to edit but of course the problem is the one core mod limit at present.

Interesting, some sort of diff system might overcome a one mod limit. Instead of providing your complete modified scripts you could give diffs of the changes to each script then with an installer written can add all the core mod diffs you want and then it order them in precedence so that with any conflicts the mod with higher priority would be chosen for that change.

**Edit:  Description has been added since I last checked ;p

I believe thats being looked into.  To be fair,  it's still early days yet but I still think progress has been far quicker this time around then it was for TS2.

I was using the place an opportunities call I think it worked twice and it hasn't worked
since is there a limit to it or what?

LMBO! Very N.I.C.E. and quite a classic response! This would be hilarious to see in our game... now someone just needs to create a SimChris Hansen so we can move forward w/this VERY important addition to the Awesome Mod...  ;D  :D  :o  :-*

Is EnablePedophilia really just a joke feature? Sure the pedobear icon next the relation action is amusing, but I was actually hoping Pescado had managed to make it to where pedophiles can be arrested. I first tried it with a random teen sim and a sim I created just to get arrested and other then giving the teen the creeped out moodlet there was no police or any added options to report the sim to another adult or anything sensible like that. If this really is meant to be more then a joke feature, which will likely destabilize AwesomeMod or at least waste space, is there something needed to get the sim arrested or at least do more then creep the sims out?

Sorry for the double post but the forum wouldn't let me edit my post and save.

It's sad that my first post on this forum after over a year of haunting it involves a pedophilia feature added to awesomemod, though I spend most of my time torturing sims and was hoping this would be an easy way to get rid of sims I didn't like from my neighborhood. I think this should actually be made functional with the ability to have the 12 report the pedophile to an adult or go to the police station and report it and then have that sim locked in jail similar to how it works with the criminal career. Though I also think that the interactions should be functional though perhaps still with a chance of creeping the teen out in the beginning and getting the pedophile arrested.

I may be wrong, but I think that the difference between Enable12Woohoo and EnablePedophilia is that the former enables woohoo/romance among teens, while the latter enables also teen-adult and teen-elder.

Pedophiles can be arrested.
I had a pregnant sim in her home ask if her son's girlfriend was single, and sure enough all of a sudden I get the message that she is going to be arrested, and the cop shows up, handcuffs her, and sends her off to jail.

But minutes later, I click on her and she's standing somewhere with her hands still cuffed behind her back. I sent her home, had her take a shower, and still all with her hands behind her back. I didn't save, but sure enough, pedophiles can be arrested.

Yeah, I just tried it with another sim this time with the adult sim not being in the same household as the teen. Unfortunately it's still just a buggy joke feature as the jailtime is quite short, the sim remains permanently handcuffed, and it seems to always result in creeping the sim out even if it was the teen that began the interactions. I've got a buggy mouse that hates the radial menu used in Sims 3 and randomly selects things I never clicked on so I figure there's no point in the feature existing if it always results in jailtime and trashes the sim by sticking the handcuff animation. Not wanting to start a fight or anything but the teens in the sims games have always looked a lot more like age 16 and up rather then 12, and like it or not 14 is the age of consent in many countries. I'm not in any way condoning pedophilia and would take a shotgun to any pedophile who got anywhere near one of my kids but in the Sims it just becomes a pain in the ass to have to force a teen sim to age up simply because another teen you matched them up with aged up a few days before and you don't want their relationship to suddenly change overnight because one of them is suddenly too old.

The files are actually MSIL but with reflector they displayed into C#, Can't wait for the SimScriptor can come out so I can write in a .NET language as I do not know MSIL enough to make a meaningful changes.

In Sims 3 their relationship will not suddenly change overnight.  They keep whatever relationships they had before.  You will just not have the romantic interactions in the menu when they are out of sync.  Wait a few days or buy the teen a birthday cake.

Do we actually need to get the patch? Weren't most of its "fixes" included in the Awesomod anyway? I have a really bad experience with EA patches and don't want to get it unless i really have to.  Actually  wouldn't "patch integrated into build"  mean that it's included in the Awesomod? If i am understanding the word "integrated" right... I thought that it kind of means "included".

You need patch probably because all he probably did was to merge patch changes to the scripts he changes. I only saw 3 scripts in the package so I assume that EA could modify others.

Yes sorry I know.  I was referring to the dissembled files via Reflector as being C.  You can get a program called Reflexil to help edit the files.

Use ResetSim to release the handcuffs. 
On a more serious note. I do take exception to the word pedophile being used to describe interactions with teens in the game.  As I stated elsewhere, the teens in the game can drive cars which in my mind makes them old enough to have sex, try for baby & get married just like in real life.

I cant see how anyone would think that this joke addition to an otherwise 'Awesome' mod was done properly, and for the first time I would ahve to disagree with something in this mod being superior to the alternative. It is nothing but vastly inferior to its competition in that respect.

I can certainly identify with steveuk's comment about taking exception to pedophile being used in this case to describe the interaction between teens and those older within the game, with note primarily focused about teens and there ability to drive, as that points to them being at least sixteen in the US, if not older.

Even after all of this, though, I will still have to stick with this mod, as in all respects save for this one, it is superior to anything liker it out there, and perhaps if this aspect is looked at more intelligently, it will come top be superior within all aspects.

Yeah I kind of agree with that logic. If it were possible to allow it if the sims involved were, say, within plus or minus 2 days from the teen > YA birthday then I think it would be somewhat sensible then. I guess that's getting a bit too complicated though since Sims aren't real people. They just stay one age for a long time then *poof* they are suddenly another age. Except the YA > Adult transition which without University seems rather superfluous.

Thanks! That worked to help, although adding new changes I could not figure how to inject any new C# code. I basically made all parties to use the nude clothing regardless what it receives from the game UI. But all the guests were still clothed even though my sim was nude. I recall skimming over some functions that check if the sim should change their clothes, probably what makes guests unnude.

Oh, they can be arrested. Just try it where someone will see you.

It does more than that. You just need to find some proper pedobait.

That's how it works in real life, too. It's fine when everyone is 12, and then someone becomes 18, and the next thing you know, someone is being arrested and being branded for life as a sex offender.

There is no "16". They are *12*.

I just read through this thread and read the options about "runstoryaction Create Household". However, when I just tried it in game, I got the error that runstoryaction is an unknown action.
I know for sure that Awesomemod is working because showconfig and maxmotives both work.

Am I doing something wrong or was it disabled in the latest version?

It may be in one of the tabs you disabled, either cheatingcheats or debug commands. Check your config.

I don't have in a config, just the Awesomemod. I can input "testingcheatsenabled true" but I cannot input "enabledebugcommands true" I get the error unknown command.

try replacing "true" with "on"

"testingcheatsenabled true" is not AwesomeMod, it's EAxis. AwesomeMod's syntax is "setconfig enabledebugcommands <on/off/true/false/etc>".

Ah thank you. I was missing the "setconfig" part. After I enabled that I was able to successfully use "runstoryaction Create Household".

I've begun my testing with this new option. I find it quite amusing. The Pedobear with the rope is rich. The Handcuffs on the flirt interactions elsewhere are pretty self explanatory.
Is it a bug or a feature that the perma-handcuffed sims as convicted pedophiles gross out the elders when flirting with them? It doesn't seem to work in reverse. It makes sense in a way though. I wouldn't want some pedophile coming and hitting on me!
I also know that the proper pedobait isn't what I think it is, since the game equivalent of whores reject pedophile advances (Flirty, Hopeless romantic, Great Kisser, Inappropriate, evil), and vice versa. I haven't attempted to proposition the convicted pedophile yet. Perhaps I should try that with one of my Pedophile tests.

Speaking of which, the conviction came from Autonomous reactions. I hope THAT can be fixed. (still haven't watched one get hauled off to jail. That's my next task!)

This option still doesn't allow 12 woohoo. A seperate mod is still required for teen on teen. Not sure if that is intentional or not.
I'd still like to see my Young Adult sims grossed out by the elders hitting on them.

As for the 12 debate, you COULD argue that "High School" tag in the USA means 15-16. You COULD, but you'd be neglecting the fact that Sims spend more years in High School than Elementary School, and that there is no Middle school. So where did it go I wonder? Middle School starts at 11-12... Strange coincidence, or conspiracy?

Yes, that *IS* in fact a feature.

I haven't noticed anyone perma-handcuffed yet. What did you do to trigger that? They SHOULD simply head off to jail.

For a 12-sim to acquire the status of Pedobait, they need to attempt age-inappropriate flirting at least once. Or you can addtrait Pedobait.

Elaborate? Which conviction, which autonomous reaction?

You need to enable the check disabler. After that, it probably takes an XML tuning to enable the interaction for 12s, but I bother with that, it's not a priority. Someone else may have made one, though.

There's no 15 or 16. That is 12. What part of the Rule of 6 do you not understand?

perma-handcuffing occured in each of my tests. As soon as your sim gets out of jail (Which oddly enough is less then a day considering the crime), they leave the police station with their hands permanently stuck in handcuffed mode.

You actually added a pedobait trait?! ;D When I was testing things both teen to YA and YA to teen resulted in the one I was interacting with being creeped out and nothing else happened. Though I also found that if they are in the same household then the adult doesn't get arrested regardless of how many times they attempt to interact romantically in private or in front of a crowd.

That's what I was afraid of. The perma-cuffing leads to this being a very non-awesome addition to the AwesomeMod if the pedo interactions can be done autonomously.

EDIT: I just did another test after hearing about the Pedobait trait and other then the fact that the addtrait Pedobait command works there is no other effect in the game. Romantic interactions from a teen to a YA still result in the YA shouting, getting the creeped out moodlet, and then nothing further.

EDIT2: Further testing by switching to the chosen YA victims household and then having that YA interact with the teen with pedobear trait has revealed that it does indeed enable the interactions without creeping the teen out. Shouldn't the interactions from the teen to the YA work as well?

I am not good with math. I keep trying to multiply by 5.62175 and round up, since my numpad 6 is too close to the 9 for me to trust it...

I don't know. It seems to be something that happens when they get out of jail. I only had one go to jail so far. Woohooing doesn't change it. I can provide screenshots or movies if you like. She's walking around with her hands behind her back, not doing anything else.

I assume, then, that this was a bug.
I started a new town. I had 1 elder male, 1 adult female, 1 ya male, 1 m&f teen, and 1 child. All unrelated. Only Awesome mod and the config file, plus a no fade ini change. I had the teens romance each other a little bit. I then went and had the female teen flirt with the young adult. Suddenly the female teen cancels her interaction with the male YA to go yell at the other teen. I go look and sure enough the female adult is creeped out. I shrug it off, and go back to increasing the relationship between the young adult and female teen. Nightfall comes and I check to see why the adult is in a bad mood and find her "passing time" in the jail. My only conclusion is that either the male teen flirting with her autonomously caused her to get thrown in jail, or she autonomously flirted with the male teen. My attention was elsewhere so I missed the whole thing. I will create a family where I don't do anything but observe and see if It happens again. Like I said before, the traits involved were Flirty, Hopeless romantic, Great Kisser, Inappropriate, and evil for the adult, and all but evil for the child. It is possible that I did a interaction from the start labeling her as a pedo right off the bat since I do recall messing around with the inappropriate "kiss" trait, but I am not sure if even that should have triggered an Autonomous reaction. I'll report back soon after a blank slate test.

Mine had to all be in the same household. Although I didn't see it, mine ended up in jail. There were no other teens around.


(Edit 1)
I tested with a blank slate copy of the family. It is not a fresh neighborhood, just a removal of the old family and the placement of a copy of the family at the point of creation. The elder came up to the teenage female and "Complimented Appearance" There have been exactly 3 forced interactions prior to this. The Adult female kissed the YA the Elder, and the Teen Male kissed the teen female. I am creating a "fresh neighborhood and doing the same thing again. Every Autonomous reaction of this that I have witnessed so far has always been "complement appearance".

I have also had another sim go to jail and come back in handcuffs. This may be related to something in Awesomemod that allows me to cancel the "go to jail" action, since I have discovered I am capable of canceling it, resulting in the cop running off.

(Edit 2)
A Fresh Neighborhood results in the same thing. This time the interaction from the elder sim was "Compliment Personality"

Pescado
Which xml tuning file is it where you can change the parameters of the jealous broadcaster?

Those issues should be fixed in the currently available update. More issues will be fixed in the next one.

The hell should I know? Do I look like grep to you?

Thanks Tangie for responding. Going to check out the other thread. 

There is no *12* that could be referred to as Teen.  Definition of Teen is a young person aged between thirteen to nineteen, hence 'Teen'.  Teens in this game drive cars which would therefore (depending on country/region) make them at least 16.  By saying they are 12 would imply that all the Teens are driving illegally (could they be)? so your statement is either wrong or deluded.
Pedophile is a term that is applied to sick people who have sexual desires for children. A child is defined as any age between birth to puberty.  This again proves your usage of the word 'pedophile' in regards to Teen relations, in-correct as most Teens have reached puberty well before 16 years of age.
So in conclusion of the above, I am right and you are wrong which makes me "More Awesome Than You" :P

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

No, what you are is an annoying and un-awesome little gnat that refuses to get that this place operates by the Rule of 6.

And that whole "driving illegally" thing makes you even more un-awesome. In MY country, you aren't allowed to drive until you're 18. NEWSFLASH: Different countries have different rules and laws. Sims don't operate under your laws just because you say so and obviously they are allowed to drive at 12. :P

What exactly did you think to achieve by challenging these rules? Did you really think it was nothing nobody had ever done before?

Now who's deluded?

In many places (North American), Elementary goes from K-7 and High School goes from 8-12.  I know this is true in and around Vancouver BC, where I grew up, and I'm sure there are others.  Grade 8 usually starts around age 13 and grade 12 ends around age 18, hence 'teen'.  It's appropriate for the simplification in The Sims where age category=school applied.

I only wish the high school were a different building than the elementary.

Oh dear, I fear I may be in part to blame about this thread suddenly becoming an argument about the teen-12 thing. It doesn't really bother me that much since I could easily make a mod to change things if it did. Sims are a completely fictional species of human-like pixelated creatures that typically only live for 90 days and therefore no real world concepts should be applicable to them. One could say that the concept of pedophilia can't really be applied to a Sim, but then Pescado has done it with his AwesomeMod which after his latest fix is once again awesome. ;D

Now to just make the jail time longer. Perhaps a a few days instead of the half day or quarter day that it does which is more an inconvenience then a punishment.

Unless the issue of Sims apparently not getting fed in jail is also fixed, this could be a pain in the ass.  Not that I actually care, since I don't have the pedobear option enabled; just pointing it out for those who do.

Would they not be fed once hunger gets really low? In the careers they do occasionally get fed but only when hunger is really low, and even then not always, and the jail seems to behave the same as a work shift only without any performance or money gain. An easy fix though would be to make the jailed sim's motives static while in jail so they would at least remain the same as when they went in.

Nope, I've had to cheat hunger levels up before.  As for careers, hunger motive usually gets boosted at the same time each day (whatever that job's lunch hours are), not based on hunger motive.

You don't get fed in prison if you're just there in a holding cell. Which, considering that your sim doesn't stay overnight or get an orange jumpsuit, you should just consider them being tossed in a holding cell with drunks and idiots.

I am in the process of making one, and have succeeded in making WooHoo available from Bed Cuddle. However, it is not possible to get teens to get the WooHoo option from standing up (or Move In, Propose Marriage, etc.) with AwesomeMod installed because you recently added the 0x4B0FC8F0A28B12EF resource to AwesomeMod to get the Pedophile and Pedobait traits in. I could make the mod a mod of AwesomeMod [lol] but that would require an update every time AwesomeMod is updated.

Is there any way to make part of a XML Resource or something? ???

Edit: If someone could make a tool that could 'patch' together two mods that use the same resource file but different parts of it, it would let us get around the ONE AND ONLY ONE thing. It could compare the differences between the two modded resources and then check the original resource to see if the two mods could be successfully combined.

Remembering how it was when I was a teen, it was usually the on bed cuddle that got me into trouble with the woohoo :P

I assume once you work out woohoo, teen pregnancy wont be far behind?

It's actually really really simple, I just don't want teen pregnancy in my game. The whole reason I started making the mod was because with Dizzymental/Lostaccount's mod they couldn't WooHoo from standing anymore, but after working on it myself I saw the problem (AwesomeMod already has the resource). My current mod is basically the same as Dizzymental/Lostaccount's, so if you want teen pregnancy just download it from his MTS page.

If I get WooHoo from standing to work with AwesomeMod, I'll be sure to upload a version with teen pregnancy.

The what?

I assume then that in your country a sense of humour is not developed until your elderly?

I'm not challenging anything.  This is Pescado's program and he can do exactly what he wants with it. If there is something I do not like....I change it.

You I guess for thinking that anything you wrote actually bothers me :-*

Sims can woohoo while standing up? How does one trigger such a thing normally? I have never seen this. As for Move In/Marriage, 12s aren't allowed to do that in real life, either. While they might be able to get away with woohooing simply because no one can stop them, they certainly wouldn't be able to go and actually file for marriage.

Edit: Problem solved.

The option to woohoo is available as part of the conversation tree (while the Sims are standing), as opposed to only available when in bed. 

I'm with Pes, I have never seen this option in game, and I've had my sims stand there for hours romancing each other.

It seems to take more social foreplay to pop up compared to when it appears in bed, but it's definitely there - if you can get the other Sim to think the active Sim is "extremely irresistible", the options to woo hoo and try for baby should appear shortly afterwards.

What Roflganger said.

Here's a pic from the current Teen WooHoo mod thread:

(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l225/Darkpool_01/Teenswoohootoohoo.jpg)

I've had this option, but nothing ever comes of it when I choose it.  I assumed they'd go off to the bedroom if I selected it and that it was broken.  Any time I choose "woo hoo" when they are standing and romancing, they stand there without doing anything further.  Hmm....maybe it's telepathic woohoo.

They are indeed supposed to go off to the bedroom to do it.  They'll even get impatient if the other one takes too long, and holler for them to join them.  It does get fairly easily queue-stomped though - Sims are apparently ADD when it comes to getting some.

I've had the option to woohoo this way several times.  I can't remember if they do a bit of kissing first, but they should then head to the bedroom and get into bed with each other.

Hey, don't blame this on ADD or ADHD!  I have ADHD and when I had the chance to get some... there wasn't anything short of the house catching on fire that would distract me.  Of course that was before my heart problems.  Now whenever a female even thinks of taking me for a test drive and finds out I have defective parts... she decides she wants a model that is still under warrenty. 

Pes, without going through the code, could you (or anyone who may know) tell me how long the "Sex offender" label remains?  My naughty sim has yet to find a job and is currently un-employable  ;D  Good bit of coding.....you have had me in stitches over my failed attempts to engage in normal relations  ::) although I did manage to get a female adult to move in. 

I've been having a problem with this. If my sim gets a NEW job, say at 10 AM, and the job starts at 3 PM, the game will say work "starts tomorrow" but my sim's work performance will start plummeting when work hours kick in with the warning that my sim is "Missing Work!" However, if I try to instruct the sim to go to work manually, I get an error: "It's not your work hours. Come back in (hours to next work day) hours."

I was told that AwesomeMod included a "gotowork" command that would let you bypass this annoying error, but assuming that person wasn't lying to me (which is a big stretch, seeing as how it isn't listed as a known command in this thread), it's not working. Is there a way around this, short of disabling this module?

Thanks very much in advance.

I'm just adding things when people point them out or if I realize it isn't in there.  My list is by no means the end all be all of what is in the mod.

I haven't used the feature you are talking about... but I believe the command is: backtowork

Test it out and see if it fixes your problem.  And if you see anything else that I haven't included in my list let me know and I'll get it added.

If I remember right, they do "Make Out" without it being queued, before both attempting to find a bedroom (which since they both do at once, naturally, they'll bump into each other and pause for a bit).

For those who have problems getting the woohoo-from-standing option, I sort of gave up on the teen-pregnancy mod because (I think) some conflagration of awesome and non-awesome mods made the woohoo from standing disappear entirely. 


It might be nice if some distinction between the 12's and the non-existing 16's was made, like halfway thru teen life you are suddenly at age of consent, breaking the rule of 6, as it were.  The pedomod is definitely a keeper for me, however, it's hilarious.

I registered here just for this question. Hopefully I'll get an answer next to all the ass driven comments I expect to recieve.

I downloaded the Awesomemod sometime in June. At first it didn't work until I realized that aweconfig.package was not the mod. After I stopped being stupid and downloaded the right stuff, I was happy as a clam until today when I downloaded the EA patch. I did that, the patch installed cleanly and I found that I needed a new awesomemod. Alright, no problem, I downloaded that and even got a new config pack for it. Now the problem is, the mod is not working. I have done all that is listed:

-Manual install
-Install via Delphy's Installer
-deleted caches
-unistalled/reinstalled the mod
-unistalled/reinstalled enablescripterror.package
-restarted the computer at the last minute

The game itself is working, just not the mod. I read somewhere here that the easiest way to see if it's working is to check the fridge for all the foods to serve. My latest save is in the morning, so all that shows up is breakfast dishes, no lunch or dinner dishes. Plus pressing Q still attepmts to quit the game. If anything, I blame my self; I tried to fix something that was not broken. I also find it quite rude that all my lesser mods still work >:( Any answer is appreciated at the moment, and if I have errors in spelling/grammar go ahead and stick me with your sharpest items. I reread this way to many times to have any errors.

How odd. I've never seen that interaction even on adults. Will enable it so that it will run through the standard tests in next version. And make it autonomousable.

Woopa - do you have any other mods installed?
Try taking everything but awesome.package and aweconfig.package out of your Mods folder. Hopefully it will just be something as simple as a conflict like that.

Nope, no change, except now they ingredients for ambrosia are not in the store :P I have the feeling that I might need a new framework or resource.cfg, because there is no real reason for this to be happening. No one seems to have my problem either after reading this entire thread...

I've seen this option, and even tried to implement it; however, I've never gotten it to actually work. I think this mostly has to do with the "you're blocking my path and I have to stand here with my hand on my hip for five minutes until you GTFO of my way" issue. So, I just have them relax on the bed after all the standing-up foreplay. Tedious.

Sim "foreplay" is weird. It is seems so utterly devoid of any passion whatsoever that you have to wonder if they're preparing to pass out rather than fuck.

More like fuck by numbers.

I've had the standing woohoo offer, accepted and had them retire to the bedroom. I stopped using it because it got queuestomped too often. It's easier to trap them on the bed together before initiating the process.

Sometimes I wonder if we're all playing the same game.  I never use anything except the standing woohoo offer, and while sometimes they stand around tapping their feet (reminds me of Sonic the Hedgehog,) they always eventually find their way to the bed and do as they're told.


Exactly.  I wonder who the hell thought this was a good idea? Whoever it was needs to be shot. It's annoying, pointless, and turns the entire thing into nothing but a clickfest, and the only "surprises" that are even possible are apparently when one of the sims in question chooses to tell a joke or gossip at an inopportune moment, spoiling the mood, and causing me to have to start from the freakin' beginning. 

See, this would actually be realistic had EA implemented the 'socialization trees' correctly. In real life, if you don't want to get romantic with a friend, you'd joke around and try to ruin the mood. This is probably what EA had in mind. Of course, they manage to screw it up impressively and annoy their players to death.

 ;D  The first time I saw this happen... I was like... "What the...?  Why are they yelling from the bed...?"  And then I started laughing... and thought... "Wow... now my sims really are in a hurry to get their "woohoo" on !"   :o   :D   :-*

Yep, you're the target audience alright.  ::)

2 questions regarding TS2-style aging.

If it's the birthday of a sim (days until age change = 0 days) when you switch families, and you hadn't aged up the sim before switching, the game ages them up anyway after you leave the family. Is it possible to freeze them at the "day 0" without the game pushing them up an age while you're not playing them? Or do I need to subtract a day from their age before leaving to prevent the game from aging them up (and how would I do this)? Other sims also seem to increase in age by 1 day when you switch/return, so the affect is that the sim ages 2 days in a "single" day of play on the switch-over day.

Is there a cheat to "add X days age to all sims that are not gods-chosen-children", so that at the end of a round of TS2/prosperity style playing you can age the townies without aging your sims further? If not, is it one that's possible to be added?

Thank you very much for creating a mod that fixes the dreadful state of story progression and makes a prosperity-style play *possible*, even if not yet ideal. :)

My problem is that I reinstalled awesomemod pre patch version.  The most recent version kept on crashing probably due to the fact that I can't patch my game with the 615 release that I have. 

I went into showconfig to see all the options.  I want to enable the CAS slider range so I typed in EXACTLY what the code was followed by the : True and it came up with 'unknown command cassliderscaleincreased.  So then I tried it without the : and it still came up with the same error message. 

Could anyone kindly enlighten me as to what I need to do to fix this problem.  I really need the facial sliders.

It might be related to beds ownership. According to some tests I did, they need to have a double bed already owned (i.e. where the sim had already slept at least once) or a double bed where noone had slept yet.

If the sim sleeps in a single bed, and all the double beds in the house are owned by other sims, the woohoo/try for baby option appears and is selectable, but it doesn't work when selected - the couple does nothing. In this case, if you plop down a new double bed somewhere and choose the option again, they will make a beeline to the new bed and proceed as designed.

Hey Audrey, you already asked this four times in the Buggieness thread. You were lucky enough to get an answer. Stop pushing your luck, you're turning into a fucking nuisance.

I get the standing WooHoo and Try For Baby options all the time. The thing that pisses me off is that if I don't choose that, but instead have them go relax on the bed to avoid the stupid log jams it seems to reset the tree and they have to start the whole damn flirting thing over again.

If they're ready to fuck while standing around talking in the kitchen, shouldn't they still be ready 5 minutes later in bed? It's so aggravating!

I've been able to get them to woohoo in bed without having them do any flirt actions previous to having them relax in bed. If it weren't for that, my Sims wouldn't get to woohoo at all. I can't stand going through the whole romance tree every time.

The romance tree certainly sucks.

I've just had a sim age up to YA, so I think I'll try the "jump into bed without flirting first" for his first romance. Hopefully it will be quicker that way.

/me giggles!

Pes, in all these years I don't think I've ever seen you say "fuck."  You make made me giggle out loud!

1 Question about the EnablePedophilia       

Enables pedophilia Option

If i enable this will i be able to have my teens date any age from Teen - Elders or adults and can my teens have babies as well as my same sex couple like female/female Male/male?

True, but even that depends on the people, relationship, and situation.  In my real life, if my bf or I  ruined the mood every time we made a joke or found something funny, we'd never have sex at all.

No.

Sorry will try to be more helpful  ;D to enable the above I would suggest you check out a mod at sexysims 2

so what does it do?

Enables Pedophilia. Duh.

Tasia, if you read post #2 at the beginning of this thread, it tells you exactly what it does.

I am never going to make weird mpreg features, because, frankly, it is STUPID. However, I will cater to your weird desires to have create spawn from arbitrary sims regardless of incompatibility issues by allowing you to commission artificially incubated simu-drones at the Science Lab. May as well make those rabbit holes do something useful. Of course, there's a few caveats there, too: If, for some odd reason, you decide you want to create your artificially incubated simu-drone from two females, you will not be able to produce any males this way as none of the participants have any Y chromosomes to use to create a male with.

Second that.  I've tested for certain that if you just tell both sims to Relax in Bed, once they're relaxing you can tell either of them to initiate WhooHoo. It's possible they might need to be engaged or married (only tested this on engaged sims).

This would be awesome. 

+1

Does making a house Sacred save the wishes and opportunities when active household is changed? Or is there a way to add new families without making them active? - i.e give them enough money to buy a house without making them active.

Also, will the mayor of my town always be known as a sex offender!?

I think it works with any sims regardless of relationship status (only requirement is LTR ~60, which I believe is just above good friend).  My first legacy game (just before I discovered awesomemod) my female founder was attracted to her police partner (Hank Goddard) so I moved him in.  Being new to the game I didn't know how relationship levels worked, and I wasn't sure how to break off the engagement (I could never find the fiancee when I tried to look for her)

The two sims never even fell in love (red heart), which suited Hank's commitment issues just fine, but yet he fathered two children.  Go figure.  (He cried for days when his fiancee died of old age, even though their relationship was at -100, because I testing cheats slid it, and he hadn't spoken to her since he moved in with Allegra - who btw was based off of Allegra Gorey from TS2 University)

Hehe, yeah that stuff creeps me out as well. Still sounds like a cool idea if it could be done without being romantically involved to sort of simulate that whole sperm bank nonsense. Would the fact that females don't have a Y chromosome really have any affect in Sims 3, or are you just deciding to make it so? From what I've seen of the genetics in the game I wouldn't think it would even have a clue what a chromosome is.

He's probably making it so based on human genetics, which is realistic if you think of sims as humans.  (I prefer to think of them as a separate lifeform that's similar to humans, but only have a lifespan of 76 hours - 24minutes*190'days'/60minperhour)

(interesting fact - some birds and fish have ZW pairings where males produce ZZ and females produce ZW, meaning the female produces both the male and the female chromosome and the males only produces male chromosome.)

Mod the Sims now has a hack for male/male pregnancy and female/female pregnancy.  I'm not sure if a male becoming pregnant will result in a floating head or not though... You might have to find and download maternity wear for males.  (or make it if you know how).

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=352028

Conflicts with Awesomemod

That is a very cool idea!  It would be neat if it took several days to incubate and could be the result of a single doner genetics as well for a true clone. 

Downloaded and installed. I'm not getting the "Try for Baby" interaction. Have you tried this yourself and did it work? Any hints would be greatly appreciated.

I haven't.... It isn't something I am too interested in.  I usually check shit out before I post it so sorry that I didn't.

Are you getting the woohoo interaction?  If not then you need to do more romance interactions.  Either that or have them both relax on the bed and see if the try for baby thing comes up.

No worries about not checking it out, I thank you for the heads up.

I am using this couple to crank art and books. One is chained to an easel, the other a typewriter. I have them woohoo every night to get the social and fun bars up to max before bed. No issues getting them to woohoo like crazy, just no "try for baby." I did switch one to female in CAS, knocked "her" up, switched her back to male for the pregnancy. I used a code (something like "enable clothingmesh false, not quite right, don't have in front of me) and never had an issue with invisible bodies.

Yep, that's fo shizzle as I've always been in a hurry to get my woohoo on...   ;D

I did some testing... and it turns out that it conflicts with awesomemod.  So... bummer

I heard back from lostaccount, yup, it conflicts. I'll have to wait to spawn in the incubator when our esteemed leader adds it to the mod.

What did you do...and how did you manage to get your job back? :P

Yes that would be great

I was wondering how spawning works with the awesomemod i tried the spawn console code and didnt see anything happen. Does it just spawn the number of sims you typed in into the town? If so are the homeless sims in the town?

The make out interaction is passionless too. They just don't get hot for each other like they did in TS2.

the enablescripterror.package actually made me unable to boot with the latest release of AM.  Uninstalling mods is as simple as removing the package files you installed from the Mods directory. You may also need to clear all cache files from the sims 3 folder in my documents (under electronic arts)

I've been having this problem with the most recent version of AM. My game always starts first try after removing AM, but unfortunately I want to play with AM, and sometimes it takes a dozen tries before it finally makes it in. It really is a completely random bug that can't be reproduced reliably so unless it's related to something in the game engine which EA may eventually patch it may never get fixed. You'll just have to follow the steps offered on the AwesomeMod thread and keep trying over and over (Or just not use AwesomeMod).

It wouldn't really surprise me if the crash bug is related to the pseudorandom number generator and the system clock (ie. if the game gets to a certain point in the loading process when the system clock reaches a certain time or a tick number divisible by a certain number it overflows the seed and crashes)

I have a question about the bills in the game and the awesomemod - or perhaps the game patch - but since I updated my game, then updated to the newest version of the awesomemod -  I keep getting the repo person at my Sims house taking stuff. Before the patch and the newest awesomemod I was getting a friendly reminder if I forgot to have the sims check their mail, but since the update no reminder at all. All I get is a pop up that tells me I haven't paid my bills and the repo person is on the way. The first time this happened I noticed my sim could still pay the bills, where previously this was blocked once the repo guy was on their way - but paying the bills still got my sims stuff repoed anyway.

Is this the patch or the updated awesomemod causing this and no warning or chance to pay the bills. Oh and one other thing I notice that repo guy went after the expensive dining room table in my Sims house. When he took the table he also took all 6 chairs as well. Pretty expensive overcharge for a 800 simoleon bill seeing the chairs were 900 Simoleons each and my Sims had just gotten that set.

Just wanted to add: regarding the loading issue - I have found if you are using the disk to play the game if you remove the disk from the drive and reboot your pc before you want to play the game, then insert disk and autoplay the game to start up, it starts the first time and loads without incident. Why this is necessary I have yet to figure out, but unless I start my game in this manner it takes as you stated several tries to get it going. I also noted when it takes several tries to get it going I seem to get a number of glitches I don't get when I start my game as stated.

added: The awesomod, newest version -is the ONLY mod in my game and I do not have the config thing, so it's the A- mod unaltered period. Unless you count Delphy's Monkee installer for us less than brillant people who are just too old to be taught new tricks - and his skin defaults. I just had eye surgery 2 weeks ago, and tried to search this thread - but I still have found nothing about Bills - maybe my eye surgery was less than successful - because I am obviously still blind. Sorry to have bothered you. Thanks anyway. All I get from a search is my own question.

Hey, so I downloaded this mod last night and I'd really love to see how much more enjoyable it's going to make my game...but I've got a bit of a problem, as well as a quick question I'd like to ask. Hopefully someone here can help me out.

I've been trying to test out the pedophilia option, but every time I have an an adult try any romantic option on a teen, my game crashes the moment the action is about to be carried out. Does anybody else have this problem or have any idea why it's doing this?

And I was also curious as to whether or not there are any same-sex pregnancy mods that don't conflict with AwesomeMod?

After i reinstalled the awomemod a and downloaded the config file a few days ago i have got some new bugs.

If i hold my cursor over some sims my game hangs and i hve to pause it and wait a few minutes. Even when i play another family and tries to move my cursor over that sim it hangs. So far this has happened with one babysitter and one infant. When i remowed the baby from the family it seemed like it didn't have a name but a lot of numbers.

Also after the reinstall my unactive sims have been gaining terrible job preformances and most of them has gotten fired od demoted seweral times. And when i cange my active family there is usaly someone there who should be at work and everyone has crappy job and school preformances.
By extensive use of gods chosen this is can be made tolerable but i realy liked the storymode with my former default awsomemod.

In addition to awsomemod i have  got:
aikea guineas eyes
hystericalparoxsisms skins
lostaccounts Teen Woohoo + Teen Pregnancy
Ashkittys longer preagnany mod

I love awsomemod the most tough.

Can anyone help me? I seem to not be able to delete custom content when I have the awesomod is in my game. Does anyone know why this is. Because if I remove it I can again and I have tried using the customize feature of the awesomod and then it (the mod itself) doesn't seem to work at all.

I'm not sure if this is a problem that is associated with awesome mod but for come reason i cannot woo-hoo anymore?

I have a few mods the newest one i have is the Ashkitty pregnancy mod..

I also have used the awesome mod config..

Got a question about the editSims command. I know it's unsupported and one shouldn't change age, traits or weight of a sims, but I tried/tested all that anyway and there seemed no problem. (probably got lucky or simply didn't notice anything)^^
I read about those "null key" lifetime rewards, but didn't really get what those are. So I'm not sure what problems could arise from "misusing" that nice tool.

Pregancy mod probably conflicts. Remove all mods except for Awesome Mod and see if the problem persists.

editsim is no longer working in my game. It was working the other day, but it isn't now. I don't recall if I've updated since the last time I knew it was working, but I was wondering if anyone has had this command stop working for them.

I am stupid. I should have looked in the buggednesses thread first, which I did after posting here >_>[

Attention People having trouble with editSim: Do you have testing cheats and debugging commands enabled for AwesomeMod? If not, this probably has something to do with your inability to successfully use editSim.

Attention New People: Many of your questions and concerns have already been addressed in this thread, and in other threads, as well. If you read through the threads in this section, you will find the answers you need.

Chaos could you maybe direct me to where I can find out about the inability to delete custom content possibly? I did try and do a search but I have never been very good at it and I don't have the time or patience to site and read pages of thread. You seem to think what I asked was already talked about so might you know where? Please. Thank you and all of that. :D

Are you talking about patterns and walls, and stuff like that? I'm not sure if it even has anything to do with AwesomeMod. I do know that these things (patterns, etc) contribute, in some way, to the size of your saved neighborhoods. The bigger the neighborhood, the more things start to go haywire, apparently. I think there's a way to delete them out-of-game, but I'm not sure how. Maybe someone more awesome than I can provide this information. I recall seeing a similar question in another thread, but I don't remember which thread, or if a solution was given. That's why it's a good idea to read all of the threads in both the AwesomeMod section and The Horror!The Horror! section. I know it's tedious to read all those threads, when you're trying to find out about a single issue, but really it's the best way. You learn lots of things!

ETA: It just occurred to me that, if a pattern is in use somewhere in your game, you may have to change whatever is using the pattern to something you don't intend to delete, and THEN delete the pattern.

If you're talking about Store items, you have to use the Launcher to uninstall them.

Who the fuck are you, and why are you telling me what to do? I take pity on them sometimes. It's my prerogative to do so.

Edit: Apparently, the person I was responding to with this has been banned, or something, and this post now makes no sense. Wheeeeeeeee!

TS3 is my first Sims game, so please be gentle.  :)

I have a question about marking my households Sacred.  My one guy I worked hard to get to Astronaut, and I really want to keep him that way while I play other households.  Will simply marking his household Sacred prevent him from being downranked, or do I need to have other settings enabled/disabled besides the default ones?  FYI the military progression rests upon relationship with superior officer, so that's why he gets downranked normally.

I didn't see this question/topic anywhere in the Awesome Mods question thread and did not know how to post a question under the Awesome Mods questions and hints thread- so sorry of this is in the wrong place but, I could really use someone's expertise on this.  :-\  I downloaded the Awesome Mod, erased the cache files, installed the enablescripterror.package file, and then downloaded the EA patch from where Pescado had posted it. (On the Awesome Mods page under the download and info.) Everything worked great! The game actually loaded this time, instead of crashing to the desktop after installing the patch like it always did before. The only problem is- in the game I shift click on a Sims' house that I want to Make Sacred and for some reason the Story Progression and Aging stay on, no matter how I have the filter settings in the game. ("All", "work and home", "friends' houses"; etc.) The family I want to stay frozen won't. They still age. Is there any way to fix this? Is there some specific order I need to set the filter then make a sims' house sacred? I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I clicked on the filter in map mode, chose Enable Story Progression On, Aging On, Shift+ Clicked on a non-active Sims' house and Made Sacred, went back to the Active household and then realized the children were getting older in the house I made Sacred. Sorry if I did put this in the wrong spot, but I did not see this specific topic posted. Any help is really appreciated, Thanks.  

I think I got it now. I went to the Awesome Mod Configuration Tool, enabled TS2 Aging and now the Sims aren't aging in other houses. If there is any other way to get the Make Sacred to work I would be happy to know.  :)

When it comes to compatibility for AM and other mods, is there an easy way for one to check those mods to see if they will conflict with AM or not?  I often open the .package files with Postal for a quick look through, but what is it I need to look for in those .package files to determine whether or not the mod will conflict with AM?

You seem to misunderstand what features do:

First, story progression is not aging. Story Progression is the random "phantom events" that are forcibly imposed on sims instantaneously. Aging is the gradual progression of the aging meter, regardless of the above. If you turn story progression off, your sims still age, and vice versa.

While discussing story progression. AwesomeMod changes/disables a lot of Story Mode events. What other phantom events are remaining that arent handled by AM? I

I know there is a commandline switch to disable Storymode, and I'm wondering what else that may affect, that isnt already covered.

Howdy Y'all,

Just wanted to say that when I try to download the most recent updated Awesome Mod... I get a zip file w/zero KB's and a message saying the file may be corrupted... and have tried it 3 times in a row... so maybe sumpin's not quite right w/the newest updated file ?   :)

The above is happening to me too :(.

I understand that Aging and Story Progression and Aging are 2 different things. I installed the Awesome Mod and the EA Patch that was posted here on More Awesome Than You, and the Aging doesn't turn off in the game at all. It did before the patch and the mod. From what I'd read on the list of things the mod does, the mod gives a Sim's household immunity to Story Progression and other assorted toadings. Do those toadings include Aging? I would really like to have the mod in the game because of what it does and the patch finally did work with the mod installed, but can't seem to find a way to turn off the Aging with both installed. Also, could you please tell me how to identify core script mods? I don't believe I've downloaded any, but I do have a few hacks/mods from ModTheSims 2.

Oh, Okay. I got it now. I was deleting the cache files and didn't have to. I also had the Riverview town installed wrong so that helped. Great mod! Thank You very much for it! Really awesome work!  :)

If the file has been truncated to 0 bytes, either it is still uploading, or was pulled in an emergency due to an emergency bug repair.

I keep getting a "network time out" message on Firefox whenever I try to download Awesome Mod.

Is anybody else having this problem?

Ok. I've read through this tread AND done a search but haven't found anything really pertaining to this. Is Awesome mod compatible with the new EA patch? It was working flawlessly and I LOVE it, can't really live without it right now. But after installing the new patch my game crashes on the load screen. If I take awesomemod out the game runs. But if I reinstall it, the game crashes. Any help here? I really love this mod!

See main thread. This is a normal glitch in the EA game engine, it will crash at random, just keep banging on it. Try using 3booter to automate the process.

Just curious what the status is as far as the No Parthenogensis option and towns keeping a stable population.  I'd heard that having that option enabled basically meant that very few kids end up being born but that it was being worked on so I was wondering what the situation is...

Aging is not a random toading, it's a deterministic and predictable process. If you want to stop your other sims from aging, use TS2Aging. Then it will function like TS2.

Just started a new neighborhood and the supreme commander action icon (that you can select the macro from) doesn't show up. Map view says they're on power idle, but selecting the sim shows a blinking queue.

Hmm... was playing w/Robotic Hand of God on for the first time today and it seems to have developed a bit of kleptomania... as when my sims go to make some drinks at their bar... the serving tray lasts long enough for the 4 drinks to be poured... and my sim can start to take a drink and then POOF... the whole thing disappears... not so great for those who are "Legendary Hosts"...   ;)   :)

Old bug, reupdate.

I only turn it on when the garbage gets out of hand.  Though it'd be cool if there is a hotkey for robotichandofgod so we don't need to type the whole setconfig robotfdkslafjdsl on and just need to say go CTRL R or something to make things go poof and then again to disable the option.

MTS2 has a macro hotkey maker for console commands, I think it stores up to 10 that can be hotkeyed to your F1-10 buttons.

That's still going on? I will retest.

7/5/2009 5:03 am is the current one right? That's what I'm having problems with.

I'm having the same problems with SC. It's been working great until the last 2 builds. I started a new neighborhood today, and SC is completely borked.
When I click to enable Supreme Commander, I get no SC icon, and I get a flood of Bathroom Uses You queued actions that reaches clear across the screen. The odd thing, is this is after only enabling SC on 1 out of 2 sims in the house.

This sim has SC enabled.
(http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/3603/96712758.jpg)

This sim does not have SC enabled.
(http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/2523/45720270.jpg)

I think that's just graphical corruption caused by some changes to the system. It will go away and things should return to normal after that.

It doesn't go away, sir. I can't even click the icons to cancel them.

Queue something else.

Tried that. Clicked on "wake up"... and the flood of BUY commands disappeared, but the corrupted "sleep" icon is still there, and new commands overlap it, and still no working SC.

My fault for using this awesome-but-experimental feature in the first place?

Try resetsim?

I don't want to leave you hanging, but I have to go to work. I'll experiment more this evening.

I had the long queue of repeats, all sleeping orders. They all were the same, the status bar filled on all of the icons at the same time. It went away after the sim woke up. This was on a sim that did not have SupCom enabled. I had to go to work, will check again when I get home to see if it still happening.

I'm still getting sims go to idle if I order them to collect seeds or collect everything, but they are fine with collect bugs or collect rocks. Works OK if I get them off the lot first. They go to the corner of the house and hang out. If I order work out while they are on the lot - either cardio or strength - they run back and forth from the tv to the outside. Again, works fine if I get them off the lot first.

This first part should go in the bugginess thread, no? Just realized as I'm looking at the thread title, but following on the earlier comments.

Requests for Supreme Commander:

- task - garden is only available after skill is at 10, but I sometimes want the sim to garden to skill up and not to read. Can task - garden be added even if the skill is not complete?

- it's a ton of fine-tuning but would it be possible to separate down the collection so they just collect one type of seed/one type of rock etc? I'm sick of collecting rare seeds and space rocks when I want special seeds and gems. Not really a big deal, just a Christmas wish.

This is probably just graphical corruption from the "serialization" process that can result when you change mods or update mods. If it goes away, the problem is harmless, but depending on what you yank out, it can explode your game unless you revert and "park". It is unlikely that AwesomeMod upgrades will do this since it doesn't blow up my game, which constantly version-changes, but you never know. It's a risk you take when playing with mods.

There are a few known issues with the collection of Seeds in the present version that will be resolved in the next. Fat Gwilly People already reported that.

Skil: Garden preferentially chooses to perform actual gardening as its first priority task, so it is superfluous to have two. In fact, internally, they're actually just two heads of the same dragon, so they can't really be "seperated" because they are, in fact, the same beast.

Supreme Commander is intentionally coded not to grant psychic powers of perception, so it can only really discern what you can discern. "Rares" can include valuable things like Flame Fruits and Life Fruits, so Supreme Commander will collect them if they appear to be of high value or unknown.

I'm having the same problem with my fresh install, never been run with the my documents folder deleted, so it can't be from an old version of the mod. The long queue shows up when a sim running SC but doesn't have a working action icon ends an interaction or when you switch from that sim to one not running SC.

Edit: Ah resetsim [first and last] got the icon to show up finally

I installed the awesomemod - only game cheat I am using.

Now I felt confident and had my young adult sim move out of her parents  house on her own.

Maybe because she used to live there - but she has an option on her parents house says to "Open Refrigerator Portal".

Sounds great!   But I click to open the refrigerator portal - and it LOOKS LIKE I was in the house and did an open on the refrigerator.   However, I can't seem to drag anything between the refrigerator and her inventory - it doesn't work at all - nothing takes to dragging at all.

I've done this dragging a million times in a regular  household - sims lives there - do an open on the refrigerator, drag things around (like get more bait for the guy who is way out there fishing....).

Is this a bug on the option?

Nancy

You may want to ask this in the AwesomeMod section - as far as I am aware, this is not a normal feature of the game.

Aha, but I have not removed (or added) anything new. I run Awesomemod, HP's default skins, dontpickupfirepits and cyberops steal xml, and the only thing that's changed is every new build of Awesomemod.

I have a theory that I can't check until later. This is a new neighborhood, not a new install. I turned on tracking and sacred for the house in my above screens, and then I went into the house and attempted to turn on SC for one of the people. Does one have anything to do with the other? Folks have mentioned a link between SC and Tracking before, or am I thinking completely sideways?

Yes, sometimes changes in AwesomeMod can result in minor things like that, which usually clear up when you resetsim or just queue something else.

Unlikely. The two are unrelated and don't really crosstalk. One thing you can try is typing "uninstall" into the console, which should reset absolutely everything and wipe all your settings.

I downloaded the EA patch patch , but i still don't think it work correctly.  Can I still Download
MATY fix?

Yes you can still download it...

To the best of my knowledge, the EA patch doesn't conflict with AwesomeMod. However a corrupted patch can possibly FUBAR your game with or without AwesomeMod.

I was thinking of giving this another go to see if it has stopped crashing my game yet.  But as I can't face reading back through 27 pages, can anyone tell me if it yet addresses the fact that neighbors won't pair up, get married, or move in together while not in play?

Nothing's changed on that front as far as I can tell, Inge.  I've resorted to having large families and marrying them off, then switching households in the middle of the night to get them pregnant.  Half the town is now related in one way or another, but they don't recognize it beyond true first cousins.  I did marry one guy to his first cousin once removed.

Harder jobs - awesome for some of my neighborhoods but not wanted in all of them.

Is there a way to disable this feature, through xmls or the aweconfig.package?

I was under the impression that the current AwesomeMod build requires the patch. Or am I wrong?

I ran awesomemod without a patched game until yesterday.  I didn't notice any problems.

Okay, been using AwesomeMod and it runs wonderfully but I have a minor issue and I've been trying to see if it's already been answered so forgive me if it is.  Every time I switch back to my family (which is Sacred) after playing another for awhile, I find that one of the parents has lost their job, one hasn't been going to theirs at all and the kids are failing in school.  Also, I notice that they are aging (which I might've wrongly assumed that Sacred also meant they didn't age either).  I was wondering if I needed to disable Story Progression from EA's options or would that also disable AwesomeMod's Story Progressions?  And.. is there a way to disable aging for Sacred Sims?

So far I haven't switched households much so haven't experienced this personally, but quite a few people have been reporting this problem. I don't think it's related to "story aggression" (my favorite name for it!). If I had to take a wild-assed guess, I would think that the Game-Play Features - Jobs functions could be culprits. Those are the options that allow inactive skill gain, valid bosses, etc. I could certainly be wrong about that, though. In any case I have not seen any solutions posted as of yet.

As for turning off aging, there is currently no such function available but in the AM Requests thread JMP posted that it could be possible in the future. Check out the most recent posts in the AwsomeMod Requests thread for additional discussion on aging.

TestingCheats no longer enabled with the Awesome Mod?  It worked fine until the last 2 builds for me.  ???

There is now a AWESOMEMOD config setting that controls whether that is on.  It is disabled by default but you can change it with the AwesomeMod Configuration Tool.

Thank you! I shall go look for that.  :)

The Google gods have failed me, so I will ask here:

Since I installed AwesomeMod, Sims in my inactive houses will refuse to go to work and school.  And when I switch over to those households, they still pretend that they don't need or want to go.  AwesomeMod has in every other way been fantastic, so I loathe the idea of not using it.

Any ideas, guys?

That seems to be mostly normal behavior, actually. The game is rather lax about simulating the activities of "inactive" households.

Hello there, I'm the new shy guy here ;p

First of all: It was a really good idea to make a mod which is so adaptable to the wishes of every single user.

BUT the thing is, that it's not working for every user :p

I put the resource.cfg into the sims3 dir.
Put the config.php and awesome.package into the sims3/mods/packages dir.
The game (1.2.7) freezes right in the beginning of the loading screen - there's no green bar growing and even the loading screen music woun't play.
I deleted the cache-files in the documents/sims3 dir and tried and tried and tried...
After installing the enablescripterror.package into my sims3/mods/packages dir the game even doesn't show the loading screen. It crashes right in the beginning.

There are so many options and I made my Sims like I wanted it, but then the whole thing wouldn't work even though I don't use any other mods.
I was so dissapointed :(

I think you might have your browser incorrectly configured: you shouldn't have downloaded a config.php file, but an aweconf.package. Althought I suspect the content is the same, the name is different, and that could explain why it's not recognized by the game and maybe why it crashes.
Try renaming the config.php in aweconf.package, and/or redownload.

I had this exactly this problem and it seemed that I had written over my the resource.cfc file in the main download directory. All I had to do to was to reintall the monkey installer.

Has anyone else noticed a problem with the criminal career rabbit hole as of the latest revision of AwesomeMod? I don't know if it happens to sims who already have the career and have been going to work before AwesomeMod, but 2 of my sims who have taken the criminal career can't actually go to work because the door to the building doesn't open, or at least when they get to the door they don't phase into it like they do with any other career rabbit hole and they just get the bubble over their head meaning they can't go there.

EDIT: This may only be broken in the Riverview neighborhood. I need to test the other.

EDIT2: The other neighborhood's rabbit hole seems fine and a new neighborhood of either works just fine. The problem is definitely connected to the latest revision of AwesomeMod but it looks like it'll just be easier to start over with my neighborhood.

So setting as Sacred has nothing to do with job security?  What exactly does it affect, then?  "Random toadyings" is a bit unclear to me.

I was under the impression that Sacred prevents those sims from switching jobs randomly, or getting married to random sims, or having children without your direction. It also appears to make their motives a little more static as rather then nuking their motives like the game does to everyone else my sacred sims tend to be pretty much the same as when I switched away from them.

Thank you very much for the clarification!  I will now take the Sacred tag off a few of mine because I'd like them to randomly marry and breed just to see what weird combinations they come up with.

So there is no option for job security?  A pity...

That's not Awesomemod.  That's EA borking the thing when an opportunity triggers on it.  The entrance borks and stops working.  Just edit the lot and replace the building (use moveobjects on if you need to) and it will work fine after that.

So now I deleted the php file and just used the standard awesome.package:
Still the same.. With noscripterror the game crashes instantly and without it doesn't start to load and doesnt play the loading screen music no matter how often I try :(

So i just installed awesomemod into my game and I have a question about one of the features.  I though that now if I switched between households I wouldn't lose wants or opportunities but that doesn't seem to be the case.  Is this feature supposed to be turned on or something?

Jordi's comment will help- you must have missed it!

I thought about that.  No solution possible, except to maybe teleport them to work/school from home.  You wouldn't want every kid in the village swarming the school entrance at the same time?  And just think of all the buses spawned going to and from school.  Same thing with adults with jobs. 

Keep in mind that after future expansions, the number of sims in the town are likely to increase, only making the problem worse.

Still needs to be a way to make it so that the sims go to work and school.  Me and my girlfriend both play this game and I really don't like to come back to my family after she's played hers for a week in game to find my Sims failing in school and getting fired from work.

I said it.  Teleportation.

I don't think going to school/work is adequate, though.  They never do their homework.  All my townie kids are getting Fs in school, but they still graduate, as long as you don't play them as your main family.

One of the tricks you can use to stop your sims from being fired is to set them on Supreme Commander. In the next version, Supreme Commander also handles homework. Incidentally, what grades they get doesn't matter when you're not playing them, if they age up while not being played, they'll just get random traits anyway.

Is Supreme Commander more stable now then?  I don't want to enable it and then have it crash my system or something.

Thank you very much for the clarification!  I will now take the Sacred tag off a few of mine because I'd like them to randomly marry and breed just to see what weird combinations they come up with.

So there is no option for job security?  A pity...
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Random toadyings refer to the ridiculous things that story agression - er, progression - can do to your Sims. Mr. Pescado described the various possible actions in this thread: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,15408.0.html

Making your sims sacred is supposed to stop all these actions, but for whatever reason it is not protecting everyone's sacred sims from all the random toadyings that can happen, especially in regards to jobs and school. Since the game was designed to be one family's very large neighborhood lot, and all sims that aren't in your active family are not only treated just like all other townies, they aren't even rendered (they are essentially put in a form of suspended animation until looked at again; I sometimes call them doughboys since a lot of things in the game looks like white bread dough when you aren't looking at it), I think that what JMP has accomplished with AwesomeMod so far is pretty amazing, even if it's still a work in progress! (And I am not trying to suck up by saying that, it's flat out true! :D)

All that said, the odds that anyone who IS subjected to story agression - which are all sims not in your active family and that are not tagged as sacred - would actually marry and have children appears to be extremely small, also according to a previous JMP post. So if I were you, I would not take off the sacred status unless you really don't care what happens to them anymore, but that's just my opinion.

Question about the Supreme Commander.

The fact it's a no-return point, is valid for the game (neighborhood) actually played or for any other existing saved games, providing they aren't loaded while the SupCom is active? Do TS3 (and the linked SupCom) "touch" all the saved games when runs, like TS2 did with all the neighborhoods, or leaves them alone until loaded?

I'll make a backup anyway, but some more infos beforehand would be useful (so I can pretend to understand and looking smart).

Question for Pescado..

I was reading a thread about a Story Progression mod called Indie Stone, and in the thread, it was suggested that it might be possible to create a version of said mod that would be Awesomemod friendly.  I'm wondering if you might consider at some point incorporating more Story Mode aspects into Awesomemod or is that just never going to happen?  (The creator of that mod gave a reason as to why they wouldn't do it themselves but I forget what exactly it was)

Marriage, babies: Here's what ought to happen, pseudo-code style, in story progression:

ChanceOfUpgrade := 0.20;
MaxBabiesForTownies := 2;
simX := first(listOfAllSims);
while simX <> null do begin
   if age(simX) <> TYAE then continue;
   if random() > ChanceOfUpgrade then continue;

   /* Find some sim to mate with */
   simY := highestNonFamilyRelationshipSameAge(simX);
   if simY == null then simY := nonFamilySimSameAge(simX);
   if simY == null then exit;  /* no sims to mate with */
   /* Now we have a Sim we are going to increase romantic relationship with. */
   do case relationshipLevel(simX,simY):
      Acquaintances:
         setRelationship(simX,simY,BestFriends);
      BestFriends:
         setRelationship(simX,simY,RomanticInterest);
      RomanticInterest:
          if not isCommittedAlready(SimY) then
             setRelationship(simX,simY,GoingSteady);
      GoingSteady:
         if age(simX)<>TEEN then setRelationship(simX,simY,Engaged);
      Engaged:
         setRelationship(simX,simY,Married);
      Married:
         if not isPregnant(simX)
            and not isPregnant(simY)
            and children(simX)<2 then begin;
               if isMale(simX) then makePregnant(simY,simX);
               else makePregnant(simX,simY);
            endif;
         end;
   endcase;
endwhile;

Using this method, CAS-made townies would have their first child in about 12 sim-days.  Townies that grew up as teens in the game would have steadies usually around their sixth day as teens, and would have their first baby around their sixth day as adults.  There is a lot of room here for easily made tweaks relating to individual traits or same-sex pregnancy or creepy pedo mods.

Story Mode aspects are on the to-do list, although we have slightly different priorities here. My only interest in "Story Progression" is to, eventually, tune it so the population will sustain itself and generally create the appearance of live-itude, whereas ISM seems to want to "fake" an entire neighborhood's worth of interaction that you will never get to see or participate in, something I consider to be mildly abhorrent, as it violates the principle of "Show, Don't Tell". As such, while making it so the neighborhood doesn't die out entirely is definitely on the to-do list, it is unlikely that anything will ever approach the level of "Story Progression" that ISM will create.

As for intercompatibility, I will discuss the matter with the creator.

I'm just curious about any additional details about these "top position showdowns/battles" and other boss/work related stuff that was mentioned in the latest build. There's no mention of toggles or if it's defaultly enabled or what. Hopefully I didn't overlook anything anywhere.

It's an integral feature like No20K. You don't get to disable it because the alternative is just too fucking stupid.

Sounds good. I like the concept for sure.

Let me just make sense of this here:

Whoever makes the most money AKA has the most raises, gets to be the top dog. If you're up for a promotion but don't make as much as the current top dog, you just get a raise instead. Whenever your income/pay beats out the top dog, you become the new top dog in your field?

Any time you fill your performance meter, you get a shot. Your sim will succeed in displacing the incumbent when the quantity of "raises" earned exceeds that of the existing incumbent. Therefore, each raise earned improves your ability to displace an incumbent and resist being displaced as an incumbent. Note that NPCs can also advance and displace YOU! As a rule, random NPC sims are not particularly resistant to displacement and once you have earned at least one raise from anywhere, you should be able to displace them with ease, but if you are vying against your own sims who have better qualifications and work ethic, you may be in for a tough haul. That's life.

Well, not everyone can be an astronaut. :P

Correct. If your sim receives a raise, say, for X, he is now at +X. He can therefore displace an incumbent who has less than +X, but cannot displace someone who has X or greater. If you try to advance against an incumbent that has a better bonus than you, you will instead simply receive a better bonus, to try again with next round. How fast you can accumulate these boosts determines how quickly you can advance if you want to compete against an existing competitor.

People you step on in such a manner may not react well.

Or just have them read Browning and be philosophical about it:
"What I aspired to be,
And was not, comforts me."
 :P

Ok, that makes perfect sense. 

No, but there can be and are multiple astronauts and those who manage to qualify for the position do not become the one and only astronaut.  However, I can understand that there really should only be one Emperor of all Evil or whatever. 

I wanted to mention that I attempted to delete my post after realizing that I'd somehow missed Link's post and basically repeated it, but I couldn't get the page to load.  Then, after I returned to it now, Pescado has commented on it but my post is gone. 

Why, why, why does MATY sometimes just not load pages without me refreshing repeatedly for days at a time, and then work fine other times?  I never have this problem with unimportant sites!   ;)

I have the same problem. Sometimes pages don't load at all, other times they load immediately. It's very inconsistent.

It has to do with the fact that it is a very long and cluttered Intertube to Malaysia. Feel free to contribute more money for a mirror server elsewhere, though.

Welcome to the internets

It's not quite as inconsistent with most other sites, at least not for me. The tubes to MATY give me more trouble than my other regular sites. But I'll live with it.

I really like the Harder Jobs / MOAR fight feature! A simple yet very brilliant idea.

Btw I've got a few questions out of curiosity:

1. how many quota does each job level have?
is it like generally: level 10 - only 1 sim; level 9 - 2 to 3 sims... and so on.
or Pescado actually did tailor-adjust the quotas for different professions?

2. if my sim has outranked the boss, and there isn't a higher rank sim at the moment, will a boss be assigned out of nowhere? or my sim will remain "boss-less" until another sim reaches a higher job level?

and if my sim will remain "boss-less", what if his job has "Boss" as one of the requirements?

3. if my sim has reached the highest job level, does it mean he will never have a boss, until he's demoted?

again this Harder Jobs thing is very brilliant and "lively". thanks Pescado.  ;)

Yes, but most other sites are not in MALAYSIA. The quality of Malaysian Internets is not particularly high.

It varies widely. Some quota limits are set logically, for instance, jobs with the Highlander Rule imposed on them, like "Governor" or "President". Others are per-workplace, for instance, the company can only have one CEO, but multiple CEOs are permissible if you plop multiple companies. Others are just chosen somewhat more arbitrarily, to a somewhat higher, but still limited, number, just to reduce too-many-chiefs syndrome.

If you require a boss, one will be chosen for you, and if there is simply NO one, one will be generated for you.

There is only one level 10 career that still has relboss as a metric, and I'm pretty sure it was caused by a copypasta error, so it will be removed in the next version.

I have never had a problem with anything other than the AwesomeMod itself. I have yet to be able to download it, it still times out.  Everything else I download, zips through quickly.   :(

Yes, but with the default story mode features enabled with awesomemod, a lot of those things should not happen, right?  I've found that if I turn Sacred off, they actually go to work now!  This is the one thing that is non-negotiable for me.  I don't want them all standing around losing their careers because I'm not babysitting them.

Maybe if I explain what I'd like to do you can help me some more.  Basically I want to put in a bunch of sims that I made (Tony Stark & his beach house for one  ;D), get each one an entry job (or buy out/rename Doo Whatsit in the case of Tony), and then just play one household while letting the others just do their thing.

I live on an Island. All the tubes are inconsistent, but equally so :P

Right, because it's your tubes that aren't as perfect as they could be (satellite?), but for those of us who are spoiled with pretty good tubes, MATY is still hard to reach because to get to it we have to use Malaysia's pretty bad tubes.  This makes sense, even if I still curse at the site regularly.  I figured it might be something like that that had been causing the problems, but I was still getting pretty frustrated. 

 ???

Sorry for being lazy and not reading all these posts to find my question..  ::)

But with the nonuditycensor disabled does inge's no censor mod still work or should I replace his file with the default and then enable AM's censor tool?

What is TS2Aging?  Is that the option that allows only your household to age when aging is on?

Yes.

Sacred On/Off shouldn't affect whether or not they go to work. My sims go to work just fine. I think it has to do with the simulation scope and various other sundry details. You could try radar-tracking them and finding out where they are when they SHOULD be at work, and going to see WTF they're doing to not be at work.

So, once enabled, the neighborhood should not age?

Yes. "Sims 2-style Aging: Only currently played household ages."

Okay sweet, thanks you guys!

I've been having the same problem that a few people have mentioned with my non played sims failing to go to work/school.  Sometimes they do, but it's pretty inconsistent.  I have them all on my radar tracking and I noticed that they tend to 'go to the park' at the most bizarre times of day - like 4:30am - with their entire family, kids included.  They stand around in the park until they are tired and then go home to sleep, seemingly unaware of the time of day.   ::)

When they are well rested and in a good mood they have no trouble getting to work/school (unless they run into route fail issues trying to get out the door or into the school/workplace itself, but thats a whole other kettle of fish.)  I have started just ctrl-clicking each house at around 5am, making sure they are all at home and just maxing their motives.  They tend to get on with their days.  Its pretty lame though having to cheat just to get things functioning in a playable way.  I really want my chosen family's children to befriend each other at school/work, and I don't want them to be getting failing grades or getting fired.  I mean, I wan't them to fail if they deserve it due to traits and life's many complications but at the moment they aren't really getting a fair rap.  They just all fail, even the genious workaholics.  Thats clearly not right.  It's one thing if they didn't get any sleep last night because they were up fighting with each other, but if they didn't get any sleep because they were just standing around tapping their feet while standing right outside their front doors... well that's just silly.  :-\  Originally I thought that sims did go to sleep with their schedules in mind, but maybe they were just deciding to go to sleep when they weren't tired in an attempt to confuse and frustrate me. 

Is there some way to tell uncontrolled families to go to sleep in time for them to get up for work or school without having to switch families and use the 'go to bed' command for each household member?  A similar command that effects the whole household would make things quicker at least, since it is fantastically great how quick it is to switch households now.   :D
If I put on supreme commander and tell my sims to power idle or some such thing will that make them more aware of when they need to sleep or will they stand around until they get a negmoodlet before attending to their sleepiness?  (I think I'm going to try it if nothing else to stop them from going to the park all the time.)  I also worry that their relationships will decay if I tell them to power idle since they won't socialize with each other unless I am controlling them... is there even relationship decay for uncontrolled sims? 

Anyway if anyone has come up with a better way of dealing with lazy uncontrolled simidiots I would be much obliged.

On a side note... it occurrs to me that I spend more time scowering this lovely site looking for fixes and advice than I spend actually playing this abomination.  I keep thinking 'Oh if just this one little thing was fixed then it would be playable...'  But there always seems to be something else that drives me nuts.  Thanks to the management for the many 'little (and big) things' that have been fixed so far.  Fingers crossed that this one will join those ranks, fast fading from my memory.   ;D

This wouldn't fix the problem of sims skipping work/school... but maybe Pesc could make it so non-active sims who are skipping work/school wouldn't receive a work performance penalty for not showing up... instead it'd be locked until they showed up.

Hmm not ideal, but at least they wouldn't all be flunking.  I can just disallow NPC Work Performance Gain for chosen to keep them from being fired but doesn't fix the issue of me having to 'make-believe' that anything is going on outside my controlled family.  ex. If I'm controlling a girl with a journalism career, and her best friend is a co-worker, it's a little annoying when that best friend is just wandering around town pointlessly when she's supposed to be working along side my girl.   :P  

No, that answer is not ideal, but it may be the best solution we can get for now, considering what we're working with here. What you are describing is the game that a lot of us wanted, but it's not the game that EA made. It may be that we'll just have to wait until we have even more powerful PC's before we'll completely get what we want. In the meantime I'm sure that Pescado will fix whatever he/they can.

I know that many people started to report that their sims were getting demoted and kids flunking school about the time that the NPC work performance gain was added to AwsomeMod. I could have sworn that Pescado said he fixed the problem but it seems to me that there are still lots of people reporting this as an issue. Do you use Supreme Commander? Maybe it's some combination of things that are causing it. I might try to experiment on some test sims to see if it's being caused by certain features. I don't use SC as of yet so I can see what happens with certain features enabled/disabled without it.

It seems odd to me that the game would make it so diffucult to just get those little buggers to go to work.  They do nothing else all day!  What's their excuse?   ;D 
I think the game a lot of us wanted requires more than just the simple action of the non playabled going to work/school, or at least the one I wanted did!  I only get bothered about stuff that seems so blatantly borked... but your probably right, EA likely didn't put enough thought into this feature either.  Still, if we all just accepted that there wouldn't have been Awsomemod!!  At any rate, to answer your question yes I use supreme commander, but only in terms of switching houses and tracking sims on radar, I haven't played around with the powertasking function.  I don't have time since I'm workin' atm (okay clearly not working but hehe, supposed to be...) but I do want to try using those options for my noncontrolled sims to see if it forces them to be responsible when not controlled.  That would be schweet. 

On this build having the CAS slider modifier (2X) option enabled in the config is suddenly crashing the game 100% of the time for me on initial loading screen whereas it never did that before.

Not a huge deal, I just disabled it and game loads fine now, but it did take me some trial and error to pinpoint the specific config option causing the problem.

2ray crash on loading screen is purely voodoo and nothing you ACTUALLY do causes it. It is apparently some kind of obscure thread-load race condition.

Are you, by chance, running ie8?  I ran into that when using ie8.  I switched to Firefox and have not had a problem since.

Never had a problem using Chrome.

I use Firefox, and experience occasional page load errors, but they're rare, except when there's a memorial service for Michael Jackson, and everyone and their dog feels the need to tweet about it.

That's what I already did. Any sim not being run in high-res simulation that is not actually at work simply doesn't gain work performance. I have no idea why your sims are skipping work/school, though. Mine don't.

That's a question I've had for awhile. What makes certain sims drop down to "Low Detail" in the radar?

I also use Firefox and I have zero problems loading this site, and I'm a compulsive refresher with 4 different forum threads open at once...

Ugh yeah I just found out you're right about that. The latest build is fuct again on loading with the same config file that worked on the last one. It of course loads if I take the config file out  :P but I don't necessarily want all the defaults so I guess I have to tweak around with the config and see which options I can live with or without to get the damned thing to load.  :-\

You don't understand.  Changing the config file won't actually fix your game.  What you need to do is just keep reloading the sims until it works. Then after that it should load for you every time without crashing. (probably) Then after the next awesomemod release it will happen again.  The game will crash.  But just reload the game and eventually it will work.  If nothing else use the 3loader and it will reload the game until it works for you.  Also, get the nointro hack from mod the sims.

Playing around with files feels like it helps... but it really doesn't.

Personally, I delete the scriptcache file before loading... and it doesn't crash on the initial load... but honestly I think that is pure luck.

I got it loading again. I'll try those but it's odd because it seems that just the config file is the issue as if I take it out it loads without problem then when I put it back in again it doesn't until eventually it just does. Weird.

Okay, so I have a couple problems, and since I'm not at all sure they're related to the Awesomemod, I'll list them here and ask advise.

1. I have several items in my family inventory which have gone blank.  Just blank squares, unclickable, undragable, unsellable.  Just taking up space.

2. I have sim (Sam Sekemoto) who recently married into my sims' family via daughter.  Although they've been married now a few days and have a spawnling on the way, everyone's UI pictures him as being the baby he is in a fresh Sunset Valley start.  He acts his age, but everyone seems him as a baby, and it's creepy.

3. My stereo is possessed.  Sims all throughout the house swear that they can hear the music and enjoy it, despite it being turned off.  I tried turning the stereo on, then off (it doesn't play in bedrooms, as it shouldn't, but does in the nursery for some reason) to get it to shut off in my sims heads.  The stereo glitched severely bad, wouldn't shut off or change the station, and I was stuck with actual sim-ish related noise coming from my speakers.  I saved, restarted, and it let me turn the stereo off so I could no longer hear it, but my sims still could, supposedly.  Deleting the stereo has no deleted the fictional music.

4. My first sim, now a grandmother, died while at work, and I cannot find her gravestone anywhere.  It's not at the Towers, it's not at the Graveyard, it's not in he Manage the dead UI, and it's not on the home lot.

I have the July 5th version of Awesomemod, plus some other skilling mods, which have been with me pretty much since the beginning.

Right.  That's because the game goes "wtf is this?" and crashes... But once it loads correctly once, it will continue loading as long as you don't change awesomemod or the config file. So... just set it up how you like it.  Then reload the damn thing until it works.  Make some coffee... smoke a joint... fuck your sister.  Whatever it takes.  But trust me, it will eventually work and it will continue to work thereafter until the next awesomod release... in which case you'll have to restart your reloading until it works/sister fucking/pot smoking routine once again.

3loader and nointro hack are your friends though.

Installing/uninstalling the enablescripterror.package file sometimes helps. I had the non-loading problem, plopped it into the Mods/Packages file, and my game loaded fine. Next version of AwesomeMod, I had to take it out, because my game wouldn't load with it in. I'm not the only one who has reported this phenomenon, but it could also just be voodoo.

It's total voodoo. Nothing you do REALLY makes any difference, other than it makes you feel better and randomly jogs the system. The reason this happens is due to some kind of race condition or multithreaded loading bug, and there is nothing you can do about it.

Well hmm... as I don't drink coffee... don't smoke pot... and am an only child... I can't try any of those options to gain an understanding why my game has developed a crashing problem after playing for 20 minutes to 3 hours at a time... since the 7/6 update of AM... so am going to now try using the 7/5 build again... because I hadn't had ANY in-game crashes until the 7/6 update and the newest build...   :-\

I am running w/TS2 aging enabled, Sup Com disabled (always), Story Progression (SP) and the Game aging disabled, 12 Woohoo enabled w/a supporting hack from MTS "Teen Woohoo+Marriage" that is supposed to be compatible w/AM and the Pedophilia enabled... all was well until the 7/6 update and beyond... ideas anyone ?   :)

Update:  And I've been using "EditSim" heavily all along... so maybe it's more dangerous w/the newer builds ?
(Not touching a Sim's age, weight or the other no-no's either)   8)

Nope, I use Chrome. I have the same problem both at my home and work computers (I haven't been able to install Firefox at work, but for some reason Chrome can easily be installed regardless of the limitations they have set up for the regular users on these computers.). What I've started doing now to deal with it is that if a page gets stuck loading, I use the stop button and then reload. Most of the time it works.

I think you must've said that a dozen times now.  They just don't want to listen to you, do they, Pescado? ;)

3booter works everytime a new build comes out.  In fact, voodoo or not, I use 3booter whenever I install a new build... but Pescado's right, I bet I'm being superstitious. :)

I've got same problem. I installed the latest awesomemod version and the game recognize it - I type showconfig and it is displayed properly but none of the mod functions are working :'( I deleted all other mods and reinstalled the game - still the same! The game is patched and I'm using the latest awesome mod. Help, any clues? My neighbourhood suffers! 
I'm quoting woopa because he/she didn't get any answer...

3booter works because it is a brute-force application designed to keep banging on it until it does, not because it possesses intrinsic magical properties.

Damn!  Lol why must my sims be renegades?  Well no worries, played last night with new shiny build, still going about 50% of the time to work and school.  Ah well, at least they wont get fired, and i guess it's not all that important that they get passing grades.  Silly question probably but how do I tell the game which sims I want running in high-res?  Do they have to be sacred?  I'm tracking several and most of them are 'low detail mode' though a few aren't... not really sure why.  Is it just when they are out and about or something that they are in high detail mode?  Sorry I don't really know how that works and can't seem to find any info about it when searching.

Sympathetic laugh @ Motoki, man I wish I understood this 'voodoo' too.  Just when I think I get these computer things figured out somebody tells me what I did to 'fix' the situation has nothing to do with the problem and couldn't possibly have accomplished anything.  I think I'm gonna start leaving offerings of raw meats in front of my disk drive.  Chanting is also not out of the question.  You mock my superstition but it's all I have!  Lol

edit:  Forgot to add that the 'work&school' option on supreme commander causes an error whenever the sims interact with objects outside of their home, and for some reason it tends to send them to the library... to study most likely, but they are never able to complete the task since they have to be reset.   :(

What finally brought the Voodoo Crash completely under control for me was the folllowing hygiene steps:

1. Every time I change/add any package to the game, I always delete all four *Cache.package files before firing up the launcher. This practice alone has made it so that no voodoo crashes have happened for me since I started doing it.

2. What also worked for me before figuring out #1 above was to simply flip the state of the enablescripterror.package.  If the Voodoo Crash occurred, I'd just remove that package if it was present, or add it if it wasn't present. This would always stop the Voodoo Crash for that particular combination of mod packages.

Then again, as Pescado states, the above hygiene practices might have the same weight as knocking on wood. Go figure. :P

Alright, I'll bite. What does RAYMUNDO mean?

I believe it is one of the books in game that sims read instead of anything else if it is in the house or their inventory.

I think I read somewhere in the thread that other ppl are getting messages regarding whats happening to other sims that are not their current active household (not just deaths). How do you get that to show?

Also how do I click and increase the stats meters?

what does wandhere do? (no i never played sims2, so "the sims2 wand thing" doesnt ring a bell)

And is the following normal?
- I switched active household and stood outside the house of the family I was playing. Essentially what happened was they just all went home after school/work, went through thte door and stood there as their stats went down.

- kids all over town are majorly failing school, heck they dont even go

I tried to read through the posts, but then the words got to me =( sorry in advance if I repeated any questions. thx

Well, everybody loves Raymundo.

I have two questions.  :P

First, a non-sacred family can have new babies? Without my control, of course, and with parthenogenesis enabled. I mean, a girl can suddenly (randonly  :-\) falling in love, marriege, and have baby...

And a sacred family, that i don't control, can have new babies?

Okay, for the third update in a row, my Voodoo management method has worked. I am starting to get a little suspicious that it may not be Voodoo...

I open the .package file with s3pe and remove compression from every file.
The game then runs like magic.

Just to be sure, I went back and redid the compression, and like magic the voodoo crash comes back.
So, this warrants a wider scale testing I think.

Thia, Use the search and you don't have to read every post, but please do not tell the members here that you couldn't read through the messages and then expect an answer to something that has already been answered. I did a search for you by simply typing in "wand" and finding the third quote:

I so did not see that one coming.  ::)

Is anyone still having serious lag issues?

I searched the thread so don't yell. I found posts back from mid-june and the last one said that the (what was then) lasted version of the mod fixed the lag from 12:59AM-early morning.

I just got the mod today. My first sim evening with it i experienced god awful lag. from 12:59 - 5:30am it would pause for a 30 sec - couple minutes every 2-5 sim minutes.
Needless to say I sat at my computer drooling and plucking hairs for a good 45 minutes!

The main reason I got the mod was for multiple-households, I've never really had problems with story progression before. But anyway, I just wanted to check if this problem is just me, or if others are also experiencing it and if there is anyway to fix it or at least lessen the damage.

I only have so many hairs to pluck!

Thanks, sumpsychochic, for the reply.

Since nobody has asked yet, could I get some clarification on the "Ancestral Home" feature in the new build?
I take it that when a house is designated 'ancestral' then it's considered a valid move-in option for any members of that family during Story Progression. What other checks apply to moving into an ancestral home? i.e. lot must be empty (no sims), moving sims' must be able to afford the lot, moving family already has a house, etc.
Also if there are multiple descendants then who gets preference or would they merge?

An "Ancestral Home" is something like Goth Manor. You expect the Goths to live there and not to leave. It's freaking NAMED for them. Thus, because it contains their fambly name, they will not move out of it from a random event, and they will not desert it.

Ah, ok. Comprehension phail on my part. Thanks. Would it be possible/would you want to add some of the functionality I mentioned?
_{Edit: Added more info. Didn't think you'd reply so quickly. Sorry for lack of clarity.
Re-edit: Took my edit and made it a new post, like it should have been in the first place. Apologies to anyone who cares. I blame Voodoo sprirts.}

You didn't mention any functionality, only some nonsense.

I meant if an ancestral family home becomes empty due to deaths, etc. then the now empty house is now considered a Move-in option for any related family members (sims with the same last name) during Story Progression so that they can inherit the ancestral home autonomously (and without paying).
The feature caught my eye as very useful for stories, where some rich old relative dies alone in a mansion and a poor distant relative finds that they are the sole heir. The movie King Ralph comes to mind...

_{Anyway, this quickly turned from a question to a request, this isn't the place so I'll stop asking.}

And all that requires is a manual renaming, I'm assuming.. cause I tried to look in the help file and I tried to shift-click and ctrl-click.  No option to make it 'Ancestral'... so a manual rename is the last thing that makes sense to me.

My boyfriend got the latest version as of 2 days go, and he bad lag too.  Oddly enough, his lasted longer every night (until 2am the first to until about 8am several days later).  He turned off the No Parthenogenesis, No household merge / split etc, options and the game is normal again.  I have an older version (a couple of weeks old, I think) and while that lagged pretty badly the first night, it was fine after that. 

I'm not sure whether the difference is because of play-style (he's playing a super social sim who's friends with half the neighbourhood; I'm not) or town (he's in Riverview, I'm in the default one whose name escapes me right now) or whether there was a code change in there during that time. 

Um...seriously?  There have been about 48 Billion changes to awesomemod over the past "couple of weeks."

The patcher app tells me I have no previous version of The Sims 3 installed. Is this because I have my Sims 3 saved to the (x86) programs files folder? Or is it because I manually transferred all the files from the computer upstairs to my laptop with out actually installing via the CD? Which for some reason, doesn't work anymore.

Can someone give me the files and tell me where to manually install them? Or should I forgo installing the patch at all since my game already crashes every few minutes?

First, thanks to Pescado, your mods have made The Sims playable for years (Yak-Yak FTW!). I shelved Sims 3 til your mod made it playable, now I can again waste endless hours.

I too am having issues with my sims skipping work/school. It seems to only be families that I play regularly, and sacred status seems to have no effect. So one morning as the school bus arrived, I paused the game and Ctrl-clicked my way through these problem familes. When I did I noticed something interesting with the times. Each family showed a different start time for school under the occupation tab. One might say school starts in 2 hours, another 5 hours, one even said 17 hours, all of this at 8AM game time. So the reason my sims are skipping work/school is because their time is off. They think it is 6AM when it is 9AM. I have no idea why this is happening. If I unpause the game a few seconds, the start time catches up. However if work/school has already started they do not go. My work-around for this is at 6AM going to my problem households and running time for about 5 seconds. Once I do this each morning, they seem to go to work/school as scheduled.
So I am wondering if my Ctrl family switching is messing up their clocks. Is there any differencebetween Ctrl-click switching families and doing it from Change Households in edit town?

My second question has to do with relationships and story mode. None of my sims are developing romantic relationships. They develop friendships, but no romance. All of my romantic relationships have to be forced by me. I also have had no marriages occur in story mode. Is this situation unique to me?

Always using the latest Awesome version, vanilla except InformonStoryAction is true.

I have had the same problem as Athenie... among my few CAS fambly's that I am Ctrl-clicking to move between houses... and have had one of my teen girls leaving for school at 7:00am to be there by 9:00am... and knew the fambly's clock was off somehow but had no idea how it got that way...  Also these kids/teens will miss school and the parents will miss work... if I've been away playing another fambly... and then come back... and then their grades drop... job peformance... etc...  Really weird stuff...   :P

And they are all on Sacred status too...   :o

No... that's not quite right now... "Little House on the Prairie" would be the ancestral home for Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert and Ma and the others...   ;D   :D   ;)

I have the same problem with non-controlled sims skipping work/school. 

I'm also having issues with romantic relationships being formed - the only thing non-controlled sims seem to want to do is antagonize each other, with a very few "befriendings" thrown in.  I have seen zero romantic relationships, zero marriages, and the only children that seem to be born are to homeless townies (and after I destroyalltownies, no babies born that aren't forced by me).  No Parthenogenesis! is enabled, but even my already-married couples (with plenty of beds/cribs) aren't spawning by themselves. 

Basically, most of my non-played sims ignore/hate each other and just stand around all day missing school and work  :-\

Like I said before, I don't really care for story progression either way. I like to progress families myself! So i discovered just turning the damn thing off works best! But I should try to disenable some of those options to get some of the SP features!  ;D

But to avoid a double post, let me also add another little buggy I found  :-\
I have pedo enabled and also installed the teenwoohoo thing for AM that I found in the pudding factory (YUHM!! PUDDING!!). I had a teen go over to Morty's house (he's single, no one else in fambly, i wanted to CLAIM him for my future rich daughter) and had her flirt, ect. They had a first kiss and that was it. They became best friends so I had her leave.
I changed over to her older sister's boyfriend's house. And helped him establish a good job, anyway played him for a while switched back to my main hh with the creepy daughter making claims to the goth's estate.(PS- she's a twin, and the twins are the youngest of 6 kids) I noticed her twin sister was normal, but couldn't find her. She had aged to an adult automatically! So I quit without saving..  :-[

Anyway. No biggie, just thought i'd let ya know so it could possibly be looked at. Like I said, I have SP turned off and aging on, and I have that teen woo hoo thing..

Well played, madam. Well played.

 :D  :D

Well, obviously, yes.  Perhaps I should have been more specific about a code change in the particular part that would affect lagginess, like more calculations being added.  

EDIT:  Incidentally, does anyone know if this is the case?  I'm a little leery about updating to the latest version if it's going to make my game horribly laggy too. 

Well a lot of the lagginess, at least in my game, was limited to the night time when the game made all the families play musical houses and keep moving in and out of various houses. There's a new version up now that has a fix for that so should be okay, but I am firing up the game now so can let you know in a bit.

In one of the previous iterations of the AwesomeMod, I'm fairly sure we could choose to have any meals available at any time of day - of course subject to the sims cooking skill.

At the time I chose this option, and it's in my game.  However it doesn't seem to be in the mod in anyway now.  Yet it's still in my game.

I'm currently running the version from the 9th of July.

The thing is, that I'd rather like to go back to having normal meal availability, do i need to remove the mod and then re-install it?

I know it seems like a very small point, but salad for breakfast has become annoying.

That was never optional.

...so don't pick it?

Where in Hades did it appear from then, because this is the only mod i run.

MATY mods have always been the only ones i run.
Gah that was my stupid fault, don't make quips when you genuinely want a proper answer - stupid del.

Honestly, I may have misread your post.. So let me give a less cryptic answer.

There was never an option to turn that on/off with Awesome mod.  Once he added that feature it was always on. If you don't want to have all meals available at all times during the day you can't use Awesome mod.  It is not and has never been an optional feature of the mod.

It's nearly impossible to do quests involving some foods without it, since the item is not otherwise available!

How hard is it to just pick the food you want? I've seen so many posts on this subject that I am forced to consider that there are many more tards in the world than I had ever imagined.  Are you people getting confused by the many, many, food choices?  Does the possibility of the extra click on "more" frighten you?  Have you not read any of the previous posts in which our generous benefactor has explained that this will not be optional?  Can your memories (or web browsers) extend beyond the current page of the thread?  All that genius and energy expended, and you want *fewer* options on an already sparse and limited game, as a *feature?

Okay I can report with this version I made it through a night with no noticeable lag. Yay!  ;D

And I agree on the food thing. Why does this bother people so damned much? There's Asian sims in my town and maybe they want to eat some damned dim sum for breakfast. Or hell, maybe they want pizza. Who cares?

I live near a Vietnamese part of town and there's a bunch of Pho (noodle soup) restaurants open at like 6 or 7 in the morning. It's generally not the first thing I want when I wake up but hey if it floats someone's boat more power to them.

I mean maybe I want to play a bachelor or eccentric sim making odd things for breakfast or an ethnic family or whatever. I don't like limiting the choice because you know what? I might not normally make spaghetti and meatballs for breakfast but I always have the ability and option to do it should I so choose.

Well count me among the tards :P I like to make my sims life harder and unoptimal, and liked the limitations on food availability. I just pretend the limitations are still there and check my written list when they cook, but it is an undesired feature. I can do with it.
This is Pescado's mod, so he does whatever he wants with it (and does it awesomely, I have to say), it doesn't mean that each and every aspect of the One mod is wanted by everyone using it.

Well, if you care what they eat, go ahead and pick. The entire list is open to you, however. Frankly, I don't even pay attention. I just select EAT from the Supreme Commander menu, and they DO it.

Okay spoke too soon. Second night I am getting moveouts and freezes again. :( This is with the latest build with the band aid too. Weird.

But is it at least not the SAME people moving around? I'm trying to analyze what exactly is the logic which drives Story Progression, and the more I figure out, the more it supports the conclusion that the system is simply utterly bugfuck crazy and is devoid of any meaning, purpose, or goal. The only way to really FIX it is to completely redo half of it. However, I'd need a dedicated test staff willing to commit to doing so, probably in grah, to really be able to pace this thing.

I'm SO willing to be a part of that hypothetical test staff.

So start showing up.

I vote for yanking out all the wires, redoing, it and simplifiying it.  We have a pretty good idea what it OUGHT to do, and that's not so complicated.

I also think you should rename the site from moreawesomethanyou.com to EAQualityAssuranceProductSupport.com

When I download the AwesomeMod Configuation file and put it in my package folder it looks like this "aweconf.package.xml". Is this how  the file is supposed to be or do I need to remove the xml at the end of it?

Remove the .xml extension.  It should download as "aweconf.package", without the extension anyway.

Ah so I'm not the only one getting the mass movement of Sims. To answer your question Pes, my game has a lot of custom Sims in it, and I've noticed the same ones move three times while playing the game. It also tended to happen after I switched main houses. 

As far as the food issue goes, this is most certainly not a realistic game, but it is realistic to have the options to cook any recipe you know and have the ingredients for regardless of the time of day. My sims don't tend to cook unless I'm raising a skill, but I appreciate being able to cook whatever I feel like clicking on.

Besides the moving problem, the new fix has caused me no problems, and I'm not crashing anymore. It must be a random act of madness or something.

Last version of the awesome mod (must be because I didn't include anything else since then) caused me a problem - when I move out a Sim from the household or simply transfer a copy of a hood from a computer to another, my Sims when reseting get the message that "they should do something about their work performance or they will be punished". The work performance jumps to totally red, the same with the children/teens that get School grade F. And this happen just after they had been alright to work or school.
Downloaded the new version today. Hope it helps.